Which statement about the sun's rotation is true?

Question

A The sun does not rotate.

B The sun rotates at about the same rate that the Earth rotates.

C The sun rotates faster at the equator than at the poles.

D The sun rotates once about every 11 years.

Answer 1

Well I know because unlike you, I pay attention in science class and do my own homework. Figure it out yourself.

Answer 2

The Sun, like most other astronomical objects (planets, asteroids, galaxies, etc.), rotates on its axis. Unlike Earth and other solid objects, the entire Sun doesn't rotate at the same rate. Because the Sun is not solid, but is instead a giant ball of gas and plasma, different parts of the Sun spin at different rates.

Answer 3

C is True.

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Answer 4

A The sun does not rotate. Everything revolves around the sun.

Answer 5

The answer is:

C. The sun rotates faster at the equator than at the poles.  

Answer 6

C

Answer 7

I guess doing a bit of reading or research is out of the question.

The sun rotates in 25 Earth days at the equator, and 34 days at the poles.  So the answer must be C.

Answer 8

D

Answer 9

Just do what I did.  I bought a small telescope and a special full-aperture filter.

I then watched the sun for 2 months, sketching the sunspots and measuring their position (latitude and "longitude" on the sun's disk).

I corrected for the Earth's translation over the 2 month period and found that the sun rotates in 25 days at the equator, and slower at higher latitudes (but I could not get a precise figure, since I only got 3 high-latitude spots in 2 months)

Answer 10

A. the sun does not rotate. <}:-})

Answer 11

C  the sun does rotate, and because it is not solid it rotates faster at the equator than at the poles.

Answer 12

B  gotta be B cause no one else answered it and thats how these tests go.

Answer 13

Yes, the Sun does rotate.As it turns out, the Sun's rotation is quite different from that of most of the planets. A rigid body such as the Earth will clearly have a single rotation rate. But since the Sun is made of gas, different parts of it rotate at different speeds.

so my answer would be c it rotates fast at the equator