What is the Sun?
Sun Keeps Us Alive
Sun Science
Wow Facts!
100

The Sun is a giant ball of burning ____

Gas

100

What does the Sun give us so we can see during the day?

Light

100

The Sun creates energy by squishing tiny things called hydrogen ____ together.

Atoms

100

How many Earths could fit inside the Sun?

More than 1 million!

200

Scientists call the Sun a "yellow ____"

Dwarf

200

What vitamin does your body make when sunlight touches your skin?

Vitamin D

200

The Sun's surface is about 10,000 degrees ____.

Fahrenheit (or about 5,538°C)

200

How many days does it take for the Sun to spin all the way around once?

27 days

300

What is the name of the outermost layer of the Sun that we can see?

The photosphere

300

What process do plants use to turn sunlight, water, and air into food?

Photosynthesis

300

The Sun's pull on planets is called gravitational ____. It stops planets floating away.

Pull (gravity)

300

The Sun makes up more than ____% of all the matter in our whole solar system!

99%

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