The Layers of the Sun
Innermost layer of the sun
What is the core?
The hottest color star
What is blue?
Cooler areas on the sun
What are sunspots?
Attraction force between objects with mass
What is gravity?
Steps used to solve a problem or answer a question
What is the scientific method?
The sun's energy radiates outwards in this layer. It can take up to 100,000 years.
What is the radiation/radiative zone?
What is red?
What is solar wind?
A collection of gas and dust held together by gravity. The birthplace of stars and planets.
What is a nebula?
Visual used to represent data
What is a graph?
This layer contains convection currents
What is the convention/convective zone?
A huge celestial body that produces light and heat as a result of a nuclear reaction
What is a star?
Magnetic storms on the surface of the sun which can release huge amounts of superheated particles and gases that can reach several thousand miles above the sun's surface
What are solar flares?
This large collection of stars, planets, and other objects held together by gravity is categorized by size
What are galaxies?
Interpretation of an event that happened based on prior knowledge or observations
What is an inference?
The outermost atmospheric layer
What is the corona
A star's temperature and __________ are related
What is color?
What are prominences?
Distance light travels in one year
What is a lightyear?
A summary statement that describes evidence gathered, often supports or rejects a hypothesis
What is a conclusion?
The outer layer you see
What is the photosphere?
The ___________ of a star affects its brightness
What is size?
5 billion years
What is the age of the sun?
The distance from Earth to the Sun
What is AU?
Using the 5 senses to study something
What are observations?
This layer gives off a reddish hue and is located in the middle of the outer/atmospheric layers
What is the chronosphere?
Brightness when viewed from Earth
What is apparent brightness?
Category the sun will belong to once it begins to expand as it uses up its hydrogen fuel
What is a red giant?
The totality of all space and the matter that exists in space
What is the universe?
A statement that can be tested with experimentation
What is a hypothesis?
H + H = He
What is nuclear fusion?
What is absolute brightness?
The category of stars our sun belongs to now
What is a main sequence star?
A graph illustrating the surface temperature of stars vs their luminosity
What is HR diagram?
The joining of scientific data for a range of hypothesis and observations that are supported by scientific research
What is are scientific theories?
This layer is visible during a solar eclipse
What is the corona?
The properties that are present on an HR diagram
What are brightness (magnitude), temperature, and color?
Yellow, average mass, average brightness
What are the properties of the sun?
The remnants of a supernova, containing immeasurable gravity and cannot be directly observed
What is a black hole?
Plants in an experiment receive equal amounts of water, but different amounts of sunlight.
Water
What is a controlled/constant variable?