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Pre-Lab Quiz: Sun Survey
Discuss each question with your team. Be prepared to explain the reasoning behind your team's answers after the quiz.
- Decreasing the temperature of a hot object will cause the light coming from it to become ________
- fainter and more red.
- fainter and more blue.
- brighter and more red.
- brighter and more blue.
- Sunspots are ________
- scorched areas of the Sun's surface.
- regions that have darkened due to ash from burning hydrogen.
- extremely hot zones on the Sun's surface.
- slightly cooler zones with strong magnetic fields.
- The Sun's magnetic field ________
- is much weaker than Earth's.
- is what holds Earth in its orbit.
- is wrapped and twisted by the Sun's rotation.
- is the source of the Sun's energy.
- The safe way to view the Sun is ________
- using sunglasses.
- through one eye at a time, or by squinting your eyes.
- by using a solar telescope, solar eclipse glasses, or looking at the image of the Sun projected onto a screen.
- by looking slightly off to the side.