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12 questions
Which two of these astronomical objects give off light (are luminous)?
What causes a parked car to heat up to a higher temperature than its surroundings on a sunny day?
Which of these days in the northern hemisphere (e.g. in London) has most hours of daylight?
Put these planets in order of how bright the sun appears from each one. Start with the one where the sun appears brightest.
Put these planets in order of their average temperature, starting with the hottest.
Which of these cars would be the hottest? Apart from colour, the cars are identical.
Which produces the greatest heating effect?
Starting with sunrise, put these positions that the Sun appears in the sky (from the UK) into the order they occur during a day.
The picture shows the path of the Sun across the sky during one day at a beach. A towel is laid out across the ground. At which point in the day is the towel heated most strongly by the Sun?
Why is heating a surface from directly overhead (or ‘face-on’) more effective than heating a surface at a different angle?
What is the correct reason why the heating effect of the Sun is greater at midday/noon than at sunrise?
Izzy is investigating how the heating angle affects the temperature rise of a card in two minutes. Match the variables in this investigation.
