Get Some "Sun" First Trivia Quiz

Answer: sunscreen

You should wear sunscreen if you're planning to be exposed to the sun for a considerable amount of time. Sunscreen protects your skin from damaging effects of UV rays given off the sun, therefore preventing you from getting a sunburn or in the long haul, skin cancer. Sunscreens are quantified in SPF factor. If you put on the sunscreen with SPF factor of 30, it would take 30 times longer for your skin to get the same amount of exposure as without it.

When seen in ultraviolet light, the unprotected skin would be gray while the sunscreened skin would be black.

Answer: sunbathe

A lot of people on the beach relax on the lounge chairs to sunbathe for a while while wearing sunglasses. Sunbathing is for tanning themselves by simply relaxing while being fully exposed to the sun, but sunbathing too long would lead to sunburn.

Answer: sundress

Sundress is a really light and loose garment that can be worn when being out on the beach or on the patio. Many people bring sundresses when going to tropical paradises.

Answer: sunbonnet

Sunbonnets are good to wear because they keep your head cool and prevent your neck from getting burned by the sun. In olden times, sunbonnets are commonly worn by women, but now they are more commonly worn by infants simply due to changes in fashion in accordance with time. Sunbonnets are made of cotton, and people have been wearing them since the Middle Ages.

Answer: sunstroke

Sunstroke, also known as heatstroke, is a serious illness from being exposed to the sun and/or intense heat for too long. It is characterized by fever, exhaustion, convulsion, and fainting.

Answer: sunscald

There are certain plants that don't want to be in a lot of sunlight. Fruits, leaves, and barks grown by plants can be damaged from getting too much sunlight, together with heat and humidity. Fruits that were once edible become inedible, so you have to grow more fruit and eat it before it gets eaten by the sun!

Answer: sunsafe

Sunsafe, sunproof or sunfast is applied especially to dyes and fabrics, though it should apply to certain pool toys too; I had numerous pool toys that were gradually worn out by the sun. Things that are sunproof do not get worn out, regardless of how long they're exposed to the sun.

Answer: sundial

Sundials, also known as sunclocks, have been around for thousands of years and were chiefly used to determine the time before there were clocks. Throughout the day, the gnomon casts the shadow and the shadow goes around in arc from sunrise to sunset and the 12 subdivisions of a half-circle are called hour-lines. During the morning, the gnomon shadow points to the west while in the afternoon it points to the east.

In the northern hemisphere the shadow appears to trace clockwise (as it moves across the northern half of the sundial), while in the southern hemisphere the shadow appears to trace counterclockwise (as it moves across the southern half of the sundial).

Answer: sunroom

A sunroom, also known as sunporch, sunlounge, sunparlor, patio room, Florida room, garden room, garden conservatory, and winter garden, is a room which enjoys the atmosphere of being outdoors, with a lot of windows where the sunlight frequently comes in. Families that have sunrooms commonly put patio-style furnitures in them, while others have couches and comfy chairs in them.

Answer: sunburst

You should enjoy the valuable moment when the sun emerges from the clouds because clouds move fast and can block out the sun just seconds later.

Sunburst is also a decoration in the shape of the sun surrounded by rays, as well as concentric bands of colors with the center being the brightest.

Answer: sunbow

Sunbow is like a rainbow that instead of sunlight refracting off of rain droplets that forms the rainbow, the sunlight refracting off of mist suspended in the air forms the sunbow. Like the rainbow, sunbow is seen with different colors from red through violet, but unlike the rainbow that touches the ground, the sunbow is seen suspended up in the sky.

Answer: sundog

Sundog is a meteorological spectacle that occurs when the sun's rays hit ice particles suspended in the atmosphere, diffracting the light into different directions, resulting in the illusion of three suns all next to each other. Sundogs are most common when the sun is low in the sky.

Answer: sunglow

When the sun is close enough to the horizon but still below the horizon, the sun lights up the sky and we get twilight. Most of the twilight sky is blue, but on the horizon it is often painted in warm colors like red, orange or yellow. Those colors appear on the eastern horizon during the morning twilight, and in the west during the evening twilight.

Answer: sunlamp

People may own sunlamps, more often called tanning beds, if they like to tan frequently or to tan for personal cosmetic reasons. Sunlamps don't have high recommendation from medical practitioners, because frequent use can lead to skin cancer, even at a young age.

Answer: sunless

This is one of the less common words with the suffix -less. Sunless means especially extended periods without sunlight, such as a string of cloudy days with no sun coming out. In the polar regions, it can go up to six months without the sun, so you may need a sunlamp there if you want to tan!