Stars/Sun/Heliospheres/Quiz

Heliospheres is a lecture from the radiation astronomy department that describes the heliosphere around the Sun.

This quiz which you are free to take at any time is based on this lecture.

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Quiz
{Yes or No, The heliosphere is a bubble in space "blown" into the interstellar medium by the solar wind. + Yes - No
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{Complete the text: Match up the structure of the Sun with the characteristic or property: radiative zone - L core - M convection zone - N dynamo - O tachocline - P photosphere - Q atmosphere - R temperature region - S chromosphere - T transition region - U corona - V heliosphere - W diffusion rather than convection { L (i) }. bow shock { W (i) }. weakly ionized, relatively cold and dense plasma { Q (i) }. X-ray emission { V (i) }. normally invisible { T (i) }. circular mass movement of plasma { N (i) }. coolest layer of the Sun { S (i) }. shear between different parts of the Sun that rotate at different rates { O (i) }. above the photosphere { R (i) }. transition from almost uniform to differential rotation { P (i) }. 150 g/cm3 { M (i) }. ultraviolet emission { U (i) }.
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{Which of the following may not be able to slow down an object entering the heliosphere at 20 km/s? + gravity - electrostatic repulsion - the charge on the surface of the Sun - a comparable charge on the incoming object - electromagnetics - strong forces
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{Complete the text: Match up the structure of the proto-Sun with the heliogonic characteristic or property: radiative zone - L core - M convection zone - N dynamo - O tachocline - P photosphere - Q atmosphere - R temperature region - S chromosphere - T transition region - U corona - V heliosphere - W apparent outer surface { L (i) }. just above the radiative zone { W (i) }. top of the radiative zone { Q (i) }. part of the heliosphere { V (i) }. below the corona and above the photosphere { T (i) }. below the protostar's radiative zone { N (i) }. coolest layer in the protoplanetary disc { S (i) }. shear between different parts of the Sun that rotate in the radiative zone { O (i) }. above the photosphere { R (i) }. transition from almost uniform to differential between radiative and convective zones { P (i) }. probably not differentiated as a protostar { M (i) }. between the protoplanetary disc and the heliosphere { U (i) }.
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{Which phenomena are associated with the heliosphere? + a region of space where the interstellar medium is blown away by the solar wind + a bubble in space + virtually all the material emanates from the Sun itself - Voyager 2 + Voyager 1 + the termination shock
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{The point where the interstellar medium and solar wind pressures balance is called the { heliopause (i) }
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{Complete the text: Match up the item letter with each of the possibilities below: Balloons - A Sounding rockets - B Aircraft assisted launches - C Orbital rocketry - D Shuttle payload - E Heliocentric rocketry - F Exploratory rocketry - G Lunar rover - H Ranger 5 { F (i) } microcalorimeter arrays { B (i) }. MeV Auroral X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy { A (i) }. Lunokhod 2 { H (i) }. ALEXIS { C (i) }. Ulysses { G (i) }. Broad Band X-Ray Telescope { E (i) }. Solar Heliospheric Observatory { D (i) }.
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{Measurements from Voyager 1 revealed a steady rise since May in collisions with? { high energy particles|particles (i) }
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{Complete the text: At the same time, in late { August (i) }, there was a dramatic drop in collisions with { low-energy particles|low energy particles (i) }, which are thought to originate from the { Sun (i) }.
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{Which of the following is not a characteristic of the heliosphere? - outward speed of the solar wind diminishes to zero - inward pressure from interstellar space is compacting the magnetic field - the solar wind even blows back at us - a 100-fold increase in the intensity of high-energy electrons from elsewhere in the galaxy diffuse into our solar system from outside + the source of heat that brings the coronal cloud near the Sun hot enough to emit X-rays may be the photosphere
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Hypotheses

 * 1) The center of the Sun could still be made of iron and be the source of the global magnetic field.