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Example Quiz 1
1. Sun spots appear in the,
Photosphere
Chromospere
Solar corona
2. Who was the first astronomer to observe sunspots?
Tycho Brahe
Galileo Galilei
Thomas HarriotÂ
3. The average size of a sunspot is about,
Half the diameter of the moon
Twice the diameter of the earth
The diameter of mars
4. What is the average temperature of a sunspot?
1500 K
2700 K
4200 K
5. Magnetic fields in a sunspot is,
Is the same as the rest of the sun
Weaker than the rest of the sun
Stronger than the rest the sun
6. Which astronomer discovered that sunspots varies in a cycles of 11 years?
George Ellery Hale
Galileo Galilei
Heinrich Schwabe
7. Early in a solar cycle, sunspots appear,
Closer to the solar equator
Closer to the solar poles
Around middle latitudes
8. Which one of these statements is TRUE about sunspots?
Sunspots appear in pairs
Sunspots appear in clusters
Sunspots appear as solitary spots
9. Maunder butterfly diagram shows,
Sunspot number plotted against time
Sunspot size plotted plotted against time
Sunspot latitude plotted against time
10. Which model explains the reversal of sun's magnetic field from one solar cycle to another?
Zeeman model
Babcock model
Heinrich model
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