Solar System
What is the name of our galaxy?
Milky Way Galaxy
This is the material that makes the sun.
Plasma
Cooler areas on the Sun that appear darker.
Sunspots
What is the core, the radiative zone, and the convection zone?
This is how many times a year a solar eclipse happens
2-5 times a year
Name the planets in the solar system.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
These are the two types of chemicals in the sun.
Hydrogen and helium
This is the visible surface of the sun.
Photosphere
This is the role of the core of the sun.
What is a thermonuclear reactor?
When the moon blocks the sun's light and casts a shadow on the Earth.
Solar eclipse
This is the type of orbits that planets move in.
What is elliptical?
DAILY DOUBLE:
This is a violent eruption of the Sun and what it causes.
What is a solar flare.
What is the aurora borealis and aurora australis.
The heated plasma that extends from the surface of the sun.
Chromosphere
This is the name for the center of the sunspot.
Umbra
Name two advantages of solar energy and one disadvantage
cleaner; renewable; high-quality source of energy that is easily converted into heat
solar energy is not available at night; at the polls not available much of winter
DAILY DOUBLE: answer both
This is the name for the portion of the orbit when a planet is at its farthest point from the sun?
This is the name for the portion of the orbit when a planet is at its closest point from the sun?
Aphelion
Perihelion
How many Earths can fit in the sun
one million
This part of the sun extends millions of miles and can reach temperatures of 3.6 million degrees.
Corona
This is the name for the outer edge of a sunspot
Penumbra
What part of the sun is visible during total eclipse
corona and chromosphere
Name two dwarf planets.
Pluto and Eres
What is the relationship between the size of the Earth's diameter to the diameter of Sun?
the Sun's diameter is 100 times bigger than the Earth's diameter
In this zone, the energy moves outward from the core's electromagnetic waves.
Radiation zone
As the energy approaches the surface, it passes through this zone where the gas cools slightly.
Convection zone
This is the amount of energy that solar cells convert from the sun.
20-25%