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The Sun's Interior
The Sun's Atmosphere
Planets
Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors
Miscellaneous
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Outermost layer of the sun's interior; hot gases rise from the bottom and cool near the top
What is the Convection Zone?
100
Extends into space for millions of km. and can be described as a halo
What is the Corona?
100
A word that means a rocky surface.
What is terrestrial?
100
These are the two locations in space described as where comets originate.
What is A comet comes from the Kuiper's Belt beyond Neptune orbit or the Oort Cloud.
100
Areas of gas on the sun's surface that are cooler than the surrounding gas
What is a Sunspot?
200
Process in which hydrogen atoms join together to form helium
What is nuclear fusion?
200
Layer of the sun's atmosphere in which a glow can be seen during a total solar eclipse
What is the Chromosphere?
200
This type of planet is large, does not have a solid surface, and has a thick atmosphere because its mass creates a larger gravitational pull that does not allow gases to escape. This type of planet is made up mostly of Hydrogen and Helium and may have moons and rings
What is a Gas Giant?
200
This explanation describes the way a comet forms and changes.
What is a loose ice, dust, and rocky particles travel in long elliptical orbits toward the sun. As this mass gets closer to the sun, the sunlight energy turns the ice to gas. A coma is formed which produces a bright comet head. As dust and gas stream away from the coma, two tails are formed (one from dust and one from gas) that give the comet an appearance of a “long-haired star.”
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Huge reddish loops of gas caused by sunspot regions
What is a Prominence?
300
Region that produces an enormous amount of energy from nuclear fusion.
What is the Core?
300
Streams of electrically charged particles that thin out from the corona
What is a Solar Wind?
300
These are reasons for the accuracy and inaccuracy of the Solar System by the door to our classroom
What is.... -The poster on the wall in room 110 is an accurate representation of the solar system because the planets are drawn to scale in relation to our actual sun. The sun is much more massive than any of the planets on the poster. Also, the planets are in the correct order. -This poster, however, does not show the correct distance between planets. Although the inner planets are closer together like they are in our solar system, the distance between them is not to scale. The Asteroid Belt is not in this picture. There are no comets, asteroids, or meteoroids on the poster like we see in our solar system. This poster also shows Jupiter as the middle of the solar system, when we know that Uranus is actually closer to the middle.
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This explanation describes an asteroid.
What is a large rock mass that originates in the Asteroid Belt between Jupiter and Mars, and some may move in an elliptical orbit (just like a comet).
300
This is the order of the layers of the Sun starting with the outermost layer to the innermost layer.
What is the Corona, Chromosphere, Photosphere, Convection Zone, Radiation Zone, and Core?
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Region of tightly packed gas where energy is transferred mainly as electromagnetic radiation
What is the Radiation Zone?
400
Considered the sun's surface layer
What is the Photosphere?
400
These are the differences between Inner (terrestrial) planets and Gas Giants.
What is -an inner planet or terrestrial planet have a thin atmosphere whereas a gas giant has a thick atmosphere. -Inner planets may have moons, but not rings like gas giants. -A gas giant’s outer layer is extremely cold because they are further from the sun. The inner planets are warmer because they are closer to the sun and stay warm through the greenhouse effect. -Inner planets have a rocky surface, but gas giants do not have a solid surface and are made up of gases.
400
This is an explanation of a meteoroid.
What is... formed from a cloud of dust from a comet or a chunk of rock from asteroids colliding and breaking apart. Once a meteoroid is formed, it travels through space.
400
This explanation describes the way an object moves in orbit in accordance to Kepler's three Laws of Planetary Motion.
What is... An asteroid in orbit moves the fastest when it is closer to the sun. If it were moving slower it would be further away from the sun. Kepler’s first law states that all moving objects (planets, asteroids, comets) move in an elliptical orbit, depending on how far the planet is away from the sun and where it is in its orbit. Kepler’s second and third laws state that as an object gets closer to the sun, it speeds up, due to the gravitational pull of the sun and “sling-shots” around the sun. Likewise, as the object moves further away from the sun in orbit, it slows down.
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The Sun's mass is made up of roughly ____ hydrogen and ____ helium.
What are three fourths and one fourth?
500
Eruptions of gas releasing large amounts of magnetic energy; occur when sunspot regions connect
What is a Solar Flare?
500
These are the differences between an Inner Planet and a Dwarf Planet.
What is ... -an inner planet is bigger than a dwarf planet and has a clear orbit because it’s mass allows for a greater gravitational force that clears the orbit of debris. -A dwarf planet has debris around it because it's much smaller and the gravitational pull is not strong enough to clear the orbit. -Both an inner planet and a dwarf planet orbit around a star like our sun.
500
This is an explanation of the transformation of a meteoroid to a meteor to a meteorite.
What is a meteoroid becomes a meteor as it enters the Earth’s atmosphere. The friction of the rock moving through the air creates heat and light making the meteor look like a “shooting star.” If a meteor does not fully burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere, it hits the Earth as a meteorite (creating a crater) as a hot chunk of rock.
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This is the difference between a solar flare, a prominence, and a sunspot.
What is... a solar flare is an eruption of gas releasing large amounts of magnetic energy from the sunspot. A sunspot is an area of gas on the sun’s surface that is cooler than the surrounding gas. A prominence is a huge reddish loop of gas caused by sunspot regions. A solar flare releases into space and can enter the Earth’s atmosphere. When a solar flare enters the Earth’s atmosphere, it disrupts the magnetic field around the Earth and can destroy and cause interference with satellites and other space equipment