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Small Objects in the Solar System
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What kind of comet comes from the Oort cloud?
Short - period comets
Great comets
Long - period comets
Small comets
2
Comets originate in the asteroid belt and Kuiper Belt.
False
True
3
What is the difference between meteors, meteoroids and meteorites?
shape
size
composition
location
4
Why do the speeds of comets increase as they near the sun?
The comets gravitational pull.
The comet is losing layers, becoming lighter.
The sun's photons speed up the comet.
The sun's gravitational pull.
5
What causes a comet to form a coma and tail?
gravity of the planets
heat from the sun
radiant energy from the sun
friction with the air
6
What are the largest of the small bodies that are found in the solar system?
Meteorites.
Meteors.
Comets.
Dwarf planets.
7
How many tails does a comet have?
4
2
3
1
8
Who is the mean kid in the movie "Toy Story"?
Andy
Dwight
Sid
Michael
9
Who is this?
B. B. Wolf
Wile E. Coyote
Wild E. Howler
10
Who is this character?
Hello Kitty
Sue Kitty
Good Kitty
11
What is the Oort cloud?
a belt of asteroids between mars and jupiter
a region unseen beyond the sun
a large sphere-like capsule that surrounds the solar system
a group of planets beyond Neptune
12
Most meteoroids that enter the Earth's atmosphere burn up before reaching the surface.
True
False
13
What are meteoroids?
a meteor after it reaches Earth
frozen gases, rock, ice, and dust
rock and iron clusters
pieces of rock that break off asteroids during space travel
14
A meteoroid that reaches Earth's surface without burning up in the atmosphere.
Meteorite.
Meteoroid.
Comet.
Meteor.
15
When is the tail of a comet visible?
When the earth fully rotates around then sun
When Christmas comes
It is visible when the sun pushes dust away from the coma
When someone says hi
16
What are the largest of the small bodies in our solar system?
Dwarf Planets
Asteroids
Comets
Meteors
17
How many components does a comet have?
2; a nucleus, and a coma
1; the comet!
4; a nucleus, a coma, a dust tail and an ion tail
3; a nucleus, a coma, and a dust tail
18
Where can the Kuiper Belt be found in our solar system?
Beyond the orbit of Neptune
In between Mars and Jupiter
19
What is a Oort cloud?
a spherical region that extends almost 1/2 to another planet
someone who can not speak good English
a big space cloud
a spherical region that extends almost 1/2 to another star
20
What is the coma of the comet?
The heaviest part of the comet.
A cloud of gas surrounding the nucleus.
The tail of the comet.
A light sprinkling of dust on the nucleus.
21
A comet's tail points in different directions at different spots along its orbit
False
True
22
In which of the following parts of the solar system are most comets likely to be located?
The asteroid belt.
In the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune.
Crossing Earth's orbit.
The Oort cloud.
23
A comet develops a coma because of ____.
Earth's atmosphere
heat from the Sun
the Oort Cloud
gravity
24
When does a comet move the fastest?
When moving toward the sun
When moving away from the sun
When far from the sun
When closest to the sun
25
What is the glowing tail that results when a meteoroid burns up in the Earth's atmosphere?
Meteorite
Meteoroid
Shooting Star
Meteor
26
Name the Christmas movie
Halloween Christmas
Christmas Nightmare
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Christmas Before Halloween
27
What is a KBO
some letters
the sun and mars
It is minor bodies not in the Keiper Belt
It is small bodies in the Keiper Belt
28
What is the nucleus of a comet primarily made of?
Hopes and dreams
Metal
Dust and ice
Rock
29
People sometimes talk about seeing shooting stars. What do they actually see?
a comet that has come close enough to Earth’s atmosphere to be seen
a star that is moving through the galaxy
a meteoroid traveling through space
a meteoroid that burns up in Earth’s atmosphere
30
Which of these objects is pictured in the diagram?
an astroid
a comet
a meteor
a meteoroid
31
How long does it take sunlight to reach the Earth?
36 minutes
15 seconds
1 minute
8 minutes
32
Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet rather than a planet?
It couldn't clear it's orbital path
It was too small
People didn't like it
It was too far away
33
A small body that travels through space is called a what?
Meteor
Meteorite
Meteoroid
Asteroid
34
KBO stands for
Kuiper Beyond Orbit
Kuiper Beyond Oort Cloud
Kepler Belt Objects
Kuiper Belt Objects
35
Who is Draco's best-friend?
Gregory Goyle
Blaise Zabini
Pansy Parkinson
Vincent Crabbe
36
Name the Christmas Movie
Home Away from Home
Home Alone
The Nightmare Before Christmas
A Christmas Story
37
A spherical region that surrounds the solar system and extents almost halfway to the nearest star.
Asteroid belt.
Oort cloud.
Kuiper belt.
The Milky Way.
38
What's the difference between an asteroid and meteroid?
Meteroids are larger
Asteroids are larger
Asteroids lie beyond the gas giants
Meteroids have hit the earth
39
Most of these objects in space are located between of orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Comets.
Dwarf planets.
Asteroids.
Meteorites.
40
A Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) is any of the minor bodies in the Kuiper Belt outside the orbit of Neptune.
True
False
41
Which is known as a Kuiper object?
Pluto
Earth
Mars
Neptune
42
Meteoroids are bigger than asteroids.
True
False
43
How many points do you get from scoring a touchdown?
7
6
1
3
44
Ceres is categorized as this because it can not clear out other bodies in it's orbit.
Asteroid.
Plutoid.
Meteoroid.
Dwarf planet.
45
How does Rudolph's nose help Santa and his team?
illuminates the way in the dark
always points to the north
senses approaching wolves
detects well behaving children
46
A description the composition of a comet is a
dirty snowball
rocky-metallic mass
47
Name the Christmas movie
Snow Glow
Snowmen
Snowbirds
Frosty the Snowman
48
What kind of comet comes from the Kuiper belt?
Small comets
Great comets
Short - period comets
Long - period comets
49
Who is this fellow?
Shaggy
Oscar
Fred
50
How long does it take a comet from the Kuiper belt to orbit the sun ?
Trillions of years
200 years or less
Only one year
between 200 years and 30 million years
51
Where is the dwarf planet Ceres located?
Oort Cloud
Moon of Jupiter
Asteroid Belt
Kuiper Belt
52
Where is the Oort cloud located?
between the sun and Mercury
between the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt
within the asteroid belt
beyond the orbit of Pluto
53
An asteroid that is covered with ice and orbits the sun over long periods of time.
Meteoroid
Plutoid
Asteroid
Comet
54
Which of the following describes Kuiper Belt objects?
Often larger than some planets in the solar system.
100 AU wide.
Extremely hot.
Minor planet-sized objects that orbit the sun in a flat belt beyond Neptune
55
What is the smallest of the small bodies of the solar system?
Plutoid.
Meteoroid.
Asteroid.
Dwarf Planet.
56
How many legs does a butterfly have?
6
2
4
8
57
A meteor shower is a group of meteors
False
True
58
What name is given to any of the minor bodies found in the Kuiper Belt?
Kuiper Belt Object (KBO)
Asteroid
Dwarf Planet
Oort Cloud
59
Trivia! Which sport below
DOESN'T
uses the concepts of projectile motion?
Archery.
Curling.
Badminton.
Frisbee.
60
Which term defines a small, irregularly shaped body made of rock or organic material that orbits the sun?
astroid
comet
meteor
meteorite
