Starfish
The earth is about how far from the sun?
93 million miles
What is a giant tower of fire that bursts out of the sun?
Solar Flare
About how many earths could fit inside the sun?
1 million
The sun is about how many degrees on the outside?
10,000 degrees Fahrenheit
The sun is how hot on the inside?
Millions of degrees.
What does rotating mean?
Spinning
Sunspots are ________ than the rest of the sun.
Cooler
What is in the center of our solar system?
The sun
What type of light waves are short?
Light travels from the sun in a __________________.
Straight line.
Light energy is a ________.
Wave
What type of light waves are long?
Yellow
What does absorb mean?
To take in or soak up
During what type of solar eclipse can a ring of sunlight be seen around the blackened moon?
An annular eclipse
When an object travels around another object, it is _____ around that object.
Revolving/orbiting
What is another word for revolving?
Orbiting
What are auroras caused by?
Solar flares
What is the spinning that makes day and night?
Rotating
Light is a form of _______.
Energy
During what type of solar eclipse is only a part of the moon between the earth and sun?
Partial eclipse
When there are more sunspots on the sun, how is the temperature on earth?
It is hotter on earth
What is the sun powered by?
Thermonuclear fusion
Every time an object goes all the way around the sun, we say it has completed what?
One year
Total eclipse
What is the orbiting around the sun that takes one year?
Revolving