Space Exploration ELO1 Quiz Practice

Sometimes I am called a "dirty snowball". I have a hydrogen cloud, coma, and a nucleus. I am invisible except when near the sun. What am I?

• Asteroid
• Star
• Meteor
• Comet

Which is found in the belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Meteors

• Stars

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor

• moon

• asteroid

• comet

The shape of comet's paths are ________________.

• circular

• elliptical

• irregular

            Which of the following is NOT considered a terrestrial-planet?

• Mars

• Venus

• Neptune

• Mercury

The largest of the terrestrial planets is

• Jupiter

• Earth

• Mars

• Uranus

Which of the Jovian planets have rings?

• only Saturn and Jupiter

• Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune

• only Saturn and Neptune

• only Saturn, Jupiter, and Uranus

Aristotle believed in which theory-based model?

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

What is at the middle of a Geocentric system?

• Sun

• Neptune

• Earth

• The Universe

What is at the middle of a Heliocentric system?

• Mars

• Moon

• Sun

• Earth