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AMC/Rubarts
Rubarts Quiz Practice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A rocky mass that orbits the sun | asteroid |
| What is found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter? | The asteroid belt |
| What is the largest asteroid on record? | Ceres |
| A general term for a space rock particle that is orbiting the Sun. | meteoroid, commonly called a shooting star. |
| A meteoroid that lands on the Earth’s surface. | meteorite |
| A celestial object made of ice and dust that orbits the Sun. | Comet |
| What are the three components of a comet? | the nucleus, the coma and the tail |
| What are the two parts of the comet’s tail? | Ion tail which always points away from the sun and the dust tail which curves towards the path of the orbit. |
| Comets usually originate from one of these two areas | The Oort Cloud or the Kuiper Belt |
| Located beyond the orbit of Pluto | The Oort Cloud |
| Area where comets move in a nearly circular orbit around the Sun | The Oort Cloud |
| An elliptical-shaped area where millions of comets orbit the Sun | The Kuiper Belt |
| Located beyond the orbit of Neptune | The Kuiper Belt |
| A “dirty snowball” of frozen ice, gas and dust that forms the ”head” of a comet | Nucleus |
| Water vapor and other gases the surround the nucleus of a comet | Coma |
| Forms when frozen gases (ions) and dust warm as a comet approaches the sun | Tail |
| Why do meteors glow when they enter the atmosphere? | Friction |
| What is created when a meteorite strikes the ground? | A crater |
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