Solar System Models and The Sun

Question 1

Which phrase best describes the HELIOCENTRIC MODEL of the solar system?

Accepted Answer

Sun centered

Question 2

During a sunspot cycle, the number of sunspots change. What is the length of the sunspot cycle?

Accepted Answer

11 years

Question 3

How did Copernicus describe the motion of the sun?

Accepted Answer

the sun is stationary

Question 4

The prefix geo stands for what?

Accepted Answer

earth

Question 5

Which of these descriptions best defines the solar system?

Accepted Answer

the sun and all bodies that travel around it

Question 6

Whose model is this picture?

Accepted Answer

Ptolemy

Question 7

Which statement is not part of Copernicus’ theory of the solar system?

Accepted Answer

Planets orbit the sun in elliptical orbits.

Question 8

What are the most major solar storms and can cause extreme problems on Earth?

Accepted Answer

solar flares

Question 9

Which of these features describe as a “arch from one place to another” from the sun’s surface?

Accepted Answer

prominence

Question 10

Which of these best describes what happens during the process of nuclear fusion in the sun?

Accepted Answer

Gas atoms gain protons

Question 11

who first used the wheel on wheel model of the solar system?

Accepted Answer

Ptolemy

Question 12

After the hydrogen is consumed, what will be the primary fuel of the Sun?

Accepted Answer

Helium

Question 13

Aristotle could not observe parallax, How might Aristotle have interpreted this problem?

Accepted Answer

Earth is not moving.

Question 14

This comes out of holes in the corona?

Accepted Answer

solar wind

Question 15

What is the PRIMARY ATOMIC REACTION that converts hydrogen atoms into helium atoms?

Accepted Answer

nuclear fusion

Question 16

Why does Aristarchus’ idea that the sun is much larger than Earth support sun centered theory

Accepted Answer

Small objects revolve around large objects.

Question 17

Which of these phrases describes a geocentric solar system?

Accepted Answer

earth as a reference point

Question 18

Which element makes up more than 70 percent of the sun?

Accepted Answer

Hydrogen

Question 19

What is the modern day solar system called?

Accepted Answer

heliocentric

Question 20

Hot gases rise to the photosphere,then sink back down. What causes the transfer of energy?

Accepted Answer

the movement of matter

Question 21

Which of these elements makes up about 25% of the mass of the sun?

Accepted Answer

Helium

Question 22

The sun is made up of six different layers. Which is the innermost layer of the sun?

Accepted Answer

core

Question 23

What did Galileo’s telescope observations show?

Accepted Answer

all of these

Question 24

How does Aristarchus’ view of the Solar System compare with Aristotle’s view?

Accepted Answer

Aristarchus’ is heliocentric, and Aristotle’s is geocentric.

Question 25

How does Kepler’s description of the paths of planets compare with Aristotle’s description?

Accepted Answer

Kepler moves in ellipses, Aristotle moves in circles

Question 26

Which information or method did Ptolemy use to develop a model of the Solar System?

Accepted Answer

mathematical models

Question 27

What is closest point to the Sun, in the orbit called?

Accepted Answer

Perihelion

Question 28

What were the four moons of Jupiter called?

Accepted Answer

Galileon moons

Question 29

Who proposed elliptical orbits, aphelion, perihelion, and orbit length?

Accepted Answer

Kepler

Question 30

Who proposed the first sun centered model of our solar system?

Accepted Answer

Aristarchus

Question 31

How does Ptolemy’s model of the universe compare with Aristotle’s model?

Accepted Answer

Both models show that celestial objects have circular paths

Question 32

Once gases reach the top of the convective zone, they cool. What happens to these gases next?

Accepted Answer

they sink back down

Question 33

What is the farthest point in an orbit called?

Accepted Answer

amphelion

Question 34

What part of the sun rotates the fastest?

Accepted Answer

equator

Question 35

What layer encompasses the whole solar system?

Accepted Answer

corona

Question 36

Which of these tools enabled Galileo to study parts of the universe that had never been seen?

Accepted Answer

telescope

Question 37

Who got in trouble for proposing the heliocentric solar system?

Accepted Answer

Aristarchus and Galileo

Question 38

With which of these solar layers are solar flares MOST CLOSELY linked?

Accepted Answer

photosphere

Question 39

Who said the Earth has three motions?

Accepted Answer

Copernicus

Question 40

What did Galileo conclude from his observations of Venus?

Accepted Answer

it has phases

Question 41

What are names of our moon?

Accepted Answer

all of them

Question 42

The prefix Helio stands for what?

Accepted Answer

sun

Question 43

What causes sunspots?

Accepted Answer

magnetic energy surges

Question 44

Term describes the apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different place

Accepted Answer

parallax

Question 45

Which term best describes the movement of matter due to temperature differences in the sun?

Accepted Answer

convection

Question 46

Whose model is the picture?

Accepted Answer

Copernicus

Question 47

What sun layer is the one we see everything on?

Accepted Answer

photosphere

Question 48

Which of these models of the universe did Ptolemy’s system support?

Accepted Answer

Earth was the center of the Universe

Question 49

How is the rotation of the sun different from the rotation of Earth?

Accepted Answer

sun has different speeds, earth has one speed

Question 50

The main energy transferred,takes 100,000 to 200,000 years togo through main layers of the Sun?

Accepted Answer

photons

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