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What the Sun has to do with Earth
True or False Sun Facts
Short Answer Facts
Miscellaneous
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What is the definition of gravity
Gravity is a force pulling together all matter (which is anything you can physically touch).
100
What is one of the jobs of the Sun that has to do with Earth's weather.
The Sun is responsible for Earth's climate.
100
Different parts of the Sun spin at different rates. True or False?
True, different parts of the Sun spin at different rates.
100
What is the diameter of the Sun?
The Sun's diameter is 1.4 million kilometers
100
What happens because of a nuclear fusion reaction?
It produces energy in the form of light, heat and radiation.
200
What is the definition of plasma?
It is hot ionized gas.
200
What force does the Sun work with in order to interfere with our Earth's tides?
The moon
200
True or false? The Sun began as a cloud of dust.
False this is just a theory but very possible.
200
Is the sun a solid?
NO!
200
How many Earths would it take to make a ball as big as the Sun.
It would take 1,300,000 Earths to make a ball as big as the sun.
300
What is the definition of sunspots?
A sunspot is a cooler, and therefore darker, region of the Sun's photosphere caused by a solar magnetic disturbance.
300
How many miles from the sun is Earth?
93 million
300
The Sun's latitude decreases as its rotation rate increases. True or False?
False, as the sun’s latitude increases, its rotation rate decreases.
300
How hot is the Sun?
27 million degrees Fahrenheit
300
What is a common name for the sun? Hint:Our blank
Our sun
400
What is the definition of a solar flare?
A violent eruption on the Sun's surface.
400
How many Earths could fit inside a ball as big as the Sun?
1,300,000-one million three hundred thousand
400
True or False? Does the Sun have a core?
True
400
What is the Sun made of?
The Sun is mostly made up of hydrogen, but it also contains helium, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, silicon, magnesium, neon, iron, and sulfur. The helium comes from the hydrogen. Hydrogen is the fuel that keeps the Sun burning.
400
How much of the solar system does the Sun take up and is our Sun big compared to other suns.
The Sun takes up more than ninety-nine percent of the solar system. Compared to other stars in the solar system, our Sun is just another star.
500
What is the definition of fusion?
Fusion is the ​technique of ​joining ​atoms in a ​reaction that ​produces ​energy.
500
What is something not experienced on Earth that is due to magnetic forces.
solar wind
500
True or false? The Sun is a BIG star?
False although it is a star it is not a big one compared to other stars in the galaxy.
500
What is emitted by the Sun mostly in the form of visible light?
electromagnetic radiation
500
How is the Sun's heat created?
It is created by strong gravitational forces that produce extreme pressures and temperatures.
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