Definitions
Fire darting out from the sun
What is solar flare?
The number of earths that can fit inside the sun
What is 1,297,126?
Another word for revolve
What is orbit?
The description of the sun
What is very active-a huge ball of fire spinning around and around jumping and hopping and rolling about like a campfire does?
The Romans gave this name to the sun
What is Sol?
Little dark spots on the sun
What are sunspots?
The number of miles away earth is from the sun
What is 92,956,050?
The amount of time it takes Earth to revolve around the sun
What is one year?
This would happen if the sun didn't have sunspots
What is the Earth would be cooler?
When you can see a part of the Moon pass in front of the sun
What is a partial eclipse?
Colorful electrical lights in the sky at night caused by solar flares
What are auroras?
The color of the sun
What is all the colors of the rainbow?
The spinning that makes it day and night
What is rotate?
Long seasons of no rain
What is a drought?
Little bright points of light during an eclipse
What are Bailey's Beads?
Earth is covered with a layer of must and gases
What is atmosphere?
Light travels in this way
What is a straight line?
The sun's satellites
What is everything orbiting the sun?
The way the sun gets its power
What is thermonuclear fusion?
The sun is completely hidden behind the moon
What is a total solar eclipse?
The sun is directly behind the Moon, but a ring of sunlight can be seen around the blackened Moon
What is an annular eclipse?
These two things make the object appear yellow
What are your eyes and brain?
The difference between rotating and revolving
What is revolve means to go all the way around, orbiting and object. Rotate means to spin, which turns night into day?
This gives us evidence that life on Earth could be young, and not millions or billions of years old
What is life could not have survived on Earth if the sun was 30% cooler because Earth would have had frozen land and surface water scattered about?
The number of times a solar eclipse happens per year
What are at least 2 solar eclipses?