Exam 8: The Sun

What are the only four forces that can affect matter?

How is the Sun's rotation different than that of Earth's?

The _______________ predicts that pairs of sunspots should occur where magnetic tubes burst through the Sun's surface.

Sunspot numbers follow a seven-year cycle.

What forms of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun's emissions do we experience here on Earth? Illustrate how we know this to be the case with one practical example for each form.

Which of the natural forces bind atomic nuclei?

Almost all the light we receive from the Sun escapes from underneath its photosphere.

Of the following parts of the Sun, which is the hottest?

Figure 8-2b What process on the Sun's photosphere does this figure represent?

Granulation is evidence that energy in the photosphere ____.