"LMS Ch 28 Review Questions
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| a feature of the lunar surface | craters
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| a meteoroid that survives Earth’s atmosphere to hit its surface | meteor
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| the shape if the moon’s orbit around Earth | ellipse
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| a small orbiting body of rock, ice, and cosmic dust that has ion and dust tails | comet
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| a small moon of Mars | Phobos
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| a layer of the moon | crust
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| the flat region beyond Neptune’s orbit that contains many short-period comets | Kuiper Belt
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| a small, rocky body that travels through space | meteoroid
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| a small object that orbits the sun, whose composition is similar to that of the inner planets | asteroid
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| a bright streak that occurs when a meteoroid burns up in Earth’s atmosphere | meteorite
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| A spherical region that surrounds the solar system and that contains billions of comets is the | Oort cloud.
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| What are the second and third stages of the moon’s formation? | differentiation and meteorite bombardment of the crust
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| On what moon of Jupiter did an engineer discover volcanoes by studying images from the Voyager spacecraft? | Io
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| Characteristics of Ganymede and Callisto are, respectively, | a magnetic field and craters.
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| Which of the following describe the phases of the moon? | new, crescent, quarter, gibbous, and full
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| What planet has rings that are divided into hundreds of small ringlets, each containing billions of pieces of rock and ice? | Saturn
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| Which of the following best describes Jupiter’s ring? | thin with microscopic particles
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| The forces of inertia and the gravitational pull of the moon on Earth cause | tides.
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| Notable characteristics of Io and Europa are, respectively, | craters and a magnetic field.
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| What happens when the shadow of one celestial body falls on another celestial body? | an eclipse
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