Solar Features
Size/Apperance
Energy
Interesting Facts
Layers of the Sun
100
The cooler regions on the sun's photosphere that appear darker.
What are sunspots?
100
When viewed in space by astronauts, it burns white.
What is the sun's colour?
100
Two important results from the sun's energy production that life on earth needs.
What are heat and light?
100
4.6 billion years.
What is the sun's age?
100
The transparent layer between the photosphere and the corona.
What is chromosphere?
200
An arc of gas erupting from the sun that loops thousands of miles into space.
What is a solar prominence?
200
An astonishing 333,400 times the earth's.
What is sun's weight?
200
Where energy is radiated from atom to atom.
What is the radiation zone?
200
Like so many others in the unniverse, the sun is a giant ball of very hot gas.
What is a star?
200
Where most of the energy of the sun is produced and its temperature is approximately 15,000,000 degrees Celsius.
What is the core?
300
This feature of the sun moves around the photosphere and seems to come and go every eleven years.
What is the sunspots cycle?
300
A mighty 1,392,000km, 109 times bigger than the earth's.
What is the diameter of the sun?
300
Where heat energy rises away from the sun's center.
What is the convection zone?
300
Approximately 150 million km.
What is the sun's distance from earth?
300
It takes the outer layers of the sun 25 days to complete this.
What is the rotation length of the sun?
400
Explosions of energetic particles and electromagnetic radiation that are among the most dramatic events that occur on the sun.
What is a solar flare?
400
About 1,000,000 of this can fit into the sun.
What is the earth?
400
When the core converts hydrogyen to helium thus creating energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
400
Twenty-eight times stronger than Earth's.
What is the sun's gravity?
400
The visible surface of the sun.
What is the photosphere?
500
A stream of charged particles flowing away from the sun at a rate of 400km per sec.
What is solar wind?
500
{DAILY DOUBLE} The mottled appearence of the photosphere due to heat convection below it.
What is granulation?
500
The process when the sun's light energy gets trapped into plant cells and is stored as it separates oxygen from water.
What is photosynthesis?
500
The sun takes 225 to 250 million years to complete this.
What is one revolution around the milky way galaxy the milky way galaxy?
500
This outer layer of the sun can only be seen during a total solar eclipse.
What is the corona?
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