What is the purpose of the sun?
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What is the purpose of the sun?
It holds the solar system together; provides life-giving light, heat, and energy to Earth; and generates space weather.
Does all life on Earth need the sun?
Without the sun there would be no vegetation on earth, because every plant needs light to live and grow. The sun even enables them to generate oxygen by means of photosynthesis, which humans and animals need to breathe. The earth’s position in the solar system is optimal for the development of life.
Why is the sun important to Earth kids?
It is the most important source of energy for life on Earth. The Sun has a diameter of around 1.39 million kilometers / 864,000 miles. It is converting 4 million tons of matter into energy every second as a result. This energy is the source of the Sun’s light and heat.
What happen if there is no sun?
With no sunlight, photosynthesis would stop, but that would only kill some of the plants—there are some larger trees that can survive for decades without it. Within a few days, however, the temperatures would begin to drop, and any humans left on the planet’s surface would die soon after.
What are 5 interesting facts about the sun?
Facts about the Sun
- The Sun accounts for 99.86\% of the mass in the solar system.
- Over one million Earth’s could fit inside the Sun.
- One day the Sun will consume the Earth.
- The energy created by the Sun’s core is nuclear fusion.
- The Sun is almost a perfect sphere.
- The Sun is travelling at 220 km per second.
What is true about the Sun?
The Sun is by far the largest object in the solar system. It contains more than 99.8\% of the total mass of the Solar System (Jupiter contains most of the rest). It is often said that the Sun is an “ordinary” star. That’s true in the sense that there are many others similar to it.
Whats a fact about the Sun?
The sun lies at the heart of the solar system, where it is by far the largest object. It holds 99.8\% of the solar system’s mass and is roughly 109 times the diameter of the Earth — about one million Earths could fit inside the sun.