Solar Structure Review Activity:
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Complete each section of the Solar Structure Comparison Activity by answering the following
questions:
How Big is the Sun?
Diameter of the Sun:
1. What are solar granules?
2. A solar granule is comparable in size to
3. What is a sunspot?
4. What is the umbra?
The penumbra?
5. A sunspot is comparable in size to
6. What is a solar prominence?
7. How many earths can you stack under the highest point of the solar prominence?
8. How large are supergranules?
9. How many earths can you string horizontally across the middle of the sun?
You have reached the end of the diameter activity.
Outer Layers of the Sun:
1. What region of the sun do sunspots form?
2. What layer of the sun was first observed by Skylab in the 1970’s?
3. How thick is the photosphere comparable to the objects listed?
4. List the layers of the sun:
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5. Which object is comparable to the outer layers of the sun?
You have reached the end of the outer layers activity.
Mass of the Sun:
1. What is the object whose mass compared to an elephants mass is most like the Earth’s mass when
compared to the Sun’s mass?
You have reached the end of the mass activity:
How Hot is the Sun?
Photosphere of the Sun:
1. How many watts are emitted by each square centimeter of the sun’s surface?
2. What is the average temperature of the photosphere?
3. What object is one-sixteenth the mass of our man?
You have reached the end of the photosphere temperature activity:
Core of the Sun:
1. What discipline allows scienctist to study the physical processes that go on beneath the sun’s surface?
2. How hot is the core?
Kelvin or
3. What layer lies above the core?
4. How long does it take energy released in the core to make it out of the radiation zone?
5. What zone lies above the radiation zone?
6. At what temp. will diamond melt?
7. What object is 1/3900th the mass of an airplane?
You’ve reached the end of the ore temperature activity:
How Far is the Sun:
1. Define perigee and apogee:
2. What object represent the average length between the Earth and Moon?
3. How far away do you think Venus would be on the scale provided?
4. What is the perihelion point between the earth and sun?
5. What is the aphelion point between the earth and sun?
6. How far away do you think the Sun would be from the Earth on this scale?
You have reached the end of the distance activity:
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