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What percentage of the solar system's mass is the sun?
a) 55.9
b) 99.8
c) 25.7
d) 77.2

How many earth's could fit inside the sun?
a) 2 billion
b) 500 thousand
c) 150 trillion
d) 1 million

How long has the sun been burning?
a) 10 million years
b) 5 billion years
c) 100 million years
d) 5 million years

How much longer until the sun will burn out?
a) 100 million years
b) 8 months
c) 1 million years
d) 5 billion years

What is the process used by the sun to produce energy?
a) exercise
b) chemical reaction
c) nuclear fusion
d) solar eclipse

What element makes up most of the sun?
a) oxygen
b) nitrogen
c) helium
d) hydrogen

What percentage of the sun is helium?
a) 25
b) 75
c) 55
d) 10

How long does light from the sun take to reach earth?
a) 1 hour
b) 8 minutes
c) 24 hours
d) 50 seconds

What element is formed during nuclear fusion?
a) hydrogen
b) oxygen
c) helium
d) corona

Electromagnetic waves are classified by their
a) wavelengths
b) temperature
c) color
d) heat

What is the most famous spacecraft sent to study the sun?
a) International Space Station
b) RADIO
c) SOHO
d) Hubble Space Telescope

What is the surface temperature of the sun?
a) 5 million degrees F
b) 10 billion degrees F
c) 10,000 degrees F
d) 25,000 degrees F

What is the name given to the middle layer of the sun?
a) Photosphere
b) Corona
c) Convection Zone
d) Core

What is the name given to the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere?
a) convection zone
b) corona
c) chromsphere
d) core

What percentage of the sun is hydrogen?
a) 100
b) 50
c) 75
d) 25

Which of these is not a requirement to be a planet?
a) Be round in shape
b) Orbit a star
c) Have an elliptical orbit
d) Clear it's orbit

A large, gaseous body at the center of the solar system
a) sun
b) earth
c) planet
d) asteroid

The system consisting of the sun and the planets and other objects that revolve around it.
a) galaxy
b) planet
c) universe
d) solar system

A natural satellite that orbits a planet
a) asteroid
b) moon
c) meteoroid
d) star

What is the difference between a meteorite, a meteor, and a meteoroid?
a) What color it is
b) Where it's located
c) How big it is
d) How hot it is

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