The Sun Test

Question 1

What is convection?

Answer 1

Transfer of heat via movement of a medium. (Boiling water)

Question 2

What is conduction?

Answer 2

Transfer of heat via physical contact.

Question 3

What is radiation?

Answer 3

Heat transfer via waves. (Fireplace)

Question 4

What are the 6 layers of the Sun?

Answer 4

Core, radiative zone, convective zone, photosphere, chromosphere, and corona.

Question 5

What state of matter are the atoms in the sun in?

Answer 5

Plasma.

Question 6

What is the Sun made up of?

Answer 6

Helium and hydrogen.

Question 7

Define sun spots.

Answer 7

Dark cool regions on the photosphere.

Question 8

What are sunspots caused by?

Answer 8

Rotation, movement of plasma, and magnetic fields.

Question 9

Define solar prominences.

Answer 9

Large arcs of glowing plasma.

Question 10

What are solar prominences caused by?

Answer 10

Plasma particles getting pulled into magnetic fields.

Question 11

Define solar flares.

Answer 11

Short, violent eruptions of electrically charged particles.

Question 12

What are solar flares caused by?

Answer 12

Breaks in magnetic fields.

Question 13

Define auroras.

Answer 13

Colored bands of light seen on Earth.

Question 14

What are auroras caused by?

Answer 14

Electrically charged particles from solar wind, disturbing Earth’s magnetic field.

Question 15

What protects the Earth from solar flares and coronal mass ejections?

Answer 15

It’s magnetic field, and partly because of its atmosphere.

Question 16

How do scientists use sunspots to study solar weather?

Answer 16

They determine the possibility and chance of solar activity by amount of sunspots.

Question 17

Describe how energy is released in the sun’s core and is transferred through each layer to earth.

Answer 17

Nuclear fusion happens in the core, it radiates through the radiative zone, the convective zone transfers it outwards, the energy radiates through the photosphere, it radiates through the chromosphere, and finally radiates through the outermost layer the corona.