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Cubangbang #165914
Cubangbang's 8th Ch. 4 The Sun Stack #165914
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In Genesis 1:16, what is the sun called? | Greater light to rule the day. |
| Distance from the sun to the earth | 150 million kilometers |
| Diameter of the sun | 1.4 million kilometers |
| Why does the moon appear to be as large as the sun? | The moon is 400 times closer |
| The distance from the crest of one wave to the crest of the next wave | wavelength |
| How do rainbows demonstrate that sunlight is composed of wavelengths? | Direct sunlight refracts & reflects with prism-like raindrops that produce the entire range of the visible region of the EM spectrum. |
| 93% of the sun's energy; combination of light, x-rays, and radio waves | electromagnetic waves |
| 7% of the sun's energy; neutral subatomic particles that can penetrate objects light-years wide as if it wasn't there | neutrinos |
| Shortest electromagnetic wavelength | x-rays |
| electromagnetic wavelengths the human eye can detect | ROYGBIV |
| ROYGBIV | red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet |
| Tool astronomer's use to identify chemical elements in an incandescent light source; uses diffraction grating | spectroscope |
| Small microscopic line on glass or plastic; Used in spectroscopes that produces a spectrum much like that produced by a prism | Diffraction grating |
| How much matter does the sun take in our solar system? | 99% |
| What is the sun composed of from most abundant to least? | hydrogen, helium, trace elements, and compounds |
| Most abundant element in the sun; composed of the most | hydrogen |
| Element discovered in the sun before it was found on Earth | helium |
| The sun's surface exists in this state of matter; neither solid, liquid or gas | plasma |
| Visible surface of the sun | photosphere |
| seething convective cells on the sun's surface; caused by hot plasma rising from the interior to the surface | granules |
| dark areas on the surface of the sun; can last several hours; associated with magnetic fields; its movement is evidence that the sun rotates on its axis; appear darker against the sun because it is cooler in temeprature; maximum average of 11 occurs every | sunspots |
| outer brighter portion of the sunspot | penumbra |
| inner darker portion of the sunspot | umbra |
| particularly violent event on the sun also known as a coronal mass ejection; can disrupt telecommunications on Earth | solar flares |
| How much mass in the sun is lost from solar radiation and solar wind? It is evidence of the biblical principle that the heavens are "waxing old like a garment" | 5 (radiation) + 1 (solar wind) = 6 million tons lost |
| layer of ionized particles in the earth's atmosphere caused by solar wind; the more ionizing that takes place in the earth's outer atmosphere, the better the short radio waves are reflected which improves the range of radio broadcasts | Ionosphere |
| Composed mostly of protons and electrons | solar wind |
| Parts of the sun's interior ; not part of solar atmosphere | core, radiative zone, convective zone |
| Part of the sun where thermonuclear reactions are believed to occur | core |
| Disturbances in the sun; streams of plasma that rise up into and descend from the sun's corona; quiescent or eruptive | prominences |
| much higher temperature than the photosphere; Outermost region of the sun's atmosphere | corona |
| Is an instrument that astronomers use to produce an artificial solar eclipse when observing the sun's atmosphere | coronograph |
| Are semiconductor devices used to produce electricity from sunlight; PV cells | photovoltaic cells |
| Disadvantage of solar energy | No sun means no power; and sunlight is diffused |
| Lower layer of the sun's atmosphere | chromosphere |
| Pointed jets on the chromosphere | spicules |
| Region within the sun in which energy travels primarily as electromagnetic waves | radiative zone |
| Are new stars being formed from knots of dust and gas | No |
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