Features of the sun
This is the visible surface of the Sun.
photosphere
This subatomic particle has a positive charge
What is a proton?
This is the standard scientific unit used to measure force.
What is a Newton (N)?
This type of organism makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a producer?
This is the path an object takes as it travels around the Sun.
What is an orbit?
These are the dark, cooler patches found on the surface of the Sun.
sunspots
This is the dense center of the atom
What is the nucleus?
This is the force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are touching.
What is friction?
This is the term for an animal that eats ONLY plants.
What is a herbivore?
: This is the force that keeps planets in orbit.
What is gravity?
This process powers the Sun and gives off heat and light.
What is nuclear fusion?
These are atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons.
What is an isotope?
This Law of Motion explains why a book sits on a table and doesn't move until you push it.
What is Newton's 1st Law?
This type of organism breaks down dead plants and animals and returns nutrients to the soil.
What is a decomposer?
This is the imaginary line that Earth rotates around.
What is an axis?
These are sudden, intense explosions of energy and radiation from the Sun's surface.
What are solar flares?
This subatomic particle has no charge and is located in the nucleus
What is a neutron?
This is the calculation of force, according to Newton's Second Law.
. What is mass times acceleration? (F=ma)
This is an organism that gets its energy by eating both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
: This event occurs when a hemisphere is tilted completely toward or away from the Sun, resulting in the longest or shortest day of the year.
What is a solstice?
This is the outermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere, visible during a total solar eclipse.
What is the corona?
These are the negatively charged particles that orbit the nucleus.
What are electrons?
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's 3rd Law?
This is a complex network of overlapping and interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
This thick middle layer of the Earth is made of hot, semi-solid rock
What is the mantle?