Home
Flashcards
Preview
Chapter 22
Home
Get App
Take Quiz
Create
Also known as the sun god in roman mythology
Sol
Adjective which identifies anything having to do with the sun
Solar
Indicates anything having to do with astronomical objects
Celestial
____ ______ (_ _) distance from the earth to the sun
astronomical unit AU
The diameter of the sun is approximately _____ ?
1.4 million km (870,000 mi)
hey filipe would you go to prom with me?
yes yes or yes ?
93% of the suns energy output is in some form of light orĀ _____ ______
electromagnetic waves
The entire span of EM waves emitted by the sun is the ____ _____
solar spectrum
Solar EM waves have wavelengths from many kilometers for radio waves to
picometers
Most of the solar spectrum is invisible to us though we can sense some of its waves as heat (_______)
infrared waves
Visible light wavelengths are measured in (nm) _____
nanometers PS~~~ sorry If this sucks
The innermost region is where the nuclear reactions that
The visible surface of the sun is called the ____
photosphere
These mounds on the sun are called
granules
The chromosphere dispates into the _____
corona
Author
8thgradeclass
ID
212559
Card Set
Chapter 22
Description
hope u ace the test
Updated
2013-04-10T03:11:35Z
Show Answers
Home
Flashcards
Preview