Our Sun
Quiz by Pam Stolz
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- Q1The sun contains _____% of the mass of our solar system10099759530s
- Q2over ________ Earth's could fit inside our sun1 billion1 million1 thousand100 thousand30s
- Q3The source of the sun's energy is.....nuclear fusionnuclear fission30s
- Q4how long does it take the light from the sun to reach the Earth?10 minutes8 minutes30 minutes5 minutes30s
- Q5the lowest layer of the sun's atmosphere is thechromospherecoronaphotosphereradiative zoone30s
- Q6the cool spots on the sun's surface are also known asprominencessun spotscool zonesflares30s
- Q7a burst of fire from the sun's surface that can reach hundreds of miles....solar prominencesolar flaresolar wind30s
- Q8this layer of the sun's atmosphere appears to have a reddish glowphotosphereconvective zonechromospherecorona30s
- Q9this layer of the sun's atmosphere is only visible during a total solar eclipsecoronaradiative zonechromospherephotosphere30s
- Q10the center of the sun is thecoreconvective zoneneutral zoneradiative zone30s
- Q11radiation produced by the core fights its way through gases in this layer of the sunconvective zonecoreradiative zoneneutral zone30s
- Q12it can take ________ million years for the sun to travel around the center of the Milky Way galaxy225-250275-300100-150150-20030s