Test 2

Question 1

Astronomical unit (Au) in meters ?

Answer 1

149597870700

149,597,870,700

Roughly 149 billion meters

Question 2

Chromosphere

Answer 2

It’s pink/red

It’s cooler than the photosphere

It would probably be forgotten

Question 3

Parts of the sun

Answer 3

Core

Radiative zone

Connective zone

Sunspots

Photosphere

Solar flare

Corona

Question 4

Hydrogen atoms fuse together on the sun true or false?

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What do the hydrogen atoms form when they fuse?

Answer 5

Helium

Question 6

Hydrogen completely ionized on sun

Answer 6

True

Question 7

E= MC^2

Answer 7

Mass can be converted to energy and vice versa

Question 8

Every second of everyday the sun converts 700 million tons of hydrogen into 695 million tons of helium

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Sun distance away

Answer 9

150 million km

Question 10

Hydrogen fusion occurs in what part of the sun?

Answer 10

Core

Question 11

Heat from core rises the gas which is called

Answer 11

Convection

Question 12

Convection zone

Answer 12

Gas rising outside core

Question 13

Where and what is the photosphere ?

Answer 13

Above the convecting layer a cooler and thinner layer (sphere of light) transparent

Question 14

From outside in core convection zone photosphere corona

Answer 14

0. Core (center)
1. Convection zone (one layer out)
2. Photosphere (two layers put)
3. Corona (three layers out)

Question 15

Carona

Answer 15

Final layer super thin very hot

Question 16

Does the corona end?

Answer 16

No it merges into solar wind

Question 17

Plasma

Answer 17

Gas soup of particles

Question 18

What is a solar flare ?

Answer 18

A giant short circuit

Question 19

Deepest layer of the sun?

Answer 19

Photosphere

Question 20

Which is cooler the convection layer or the photosphere ?

Answer 20

The photosphere