By Joe Ryan

Grade 6 Science

Mont Pleasant Middle School

Schenectady City Schools

Directions: Read the questions and click on the web sites below to answer them. Use the websites listed to find the answers.

1.How long has the sun “burned” for?

2. Although the sun has no solid surface like the Earth, the sun still has a defined structure. Name the three major surface areas of the sun.

3. In the sun’s core what do two (2) hydrogen atoms combine to form? One helium atom

4. How far away is the sun from Earth?

5. How hot can the sun’s core get?

6. What percentage (%) of the solar mass does the sun take up?

7. How many Earths would fit across the sun and how many Earths could fit inside the sun?

8. Draw the diagram of how neutrons and protons fuse

10. Does the sun rotate? If so, how long does it take for the sun to make one complete rotation?

11. How can you determine the temperature of a star?

12. Name other ways stars differ from our sun.

13. What galaxy is our sun located in?

14.Write down the space weathers current conditions.