ES Quiz Five Comets, etc. and the Moon

Spacecraft traveling to Jupiter from Earth would most likely have to navigate through or around which natural obstacle?

• Uranus

• Neptune

• Asteroid Belt

• Comet's tail

Which characteristic do all the planets in our solar system have in common?

• Angle of axial tilt

• Direction of revolution

• Percentages of atmospheric gases

• Features of rocky crust

Select the two theories of moon formation that propose that much or all of the material comprising the Moon came from Earth.

• fission theory

• capture theory

• co-accretion theory

• giant-impact theory

Scientists discovered that the level of deuterium in comets forming in the Kuiper Belt is nearly identical to the level found in the oceans of Earth. This discovery provides supporting data for which theory?

• The impact of Earth’s gravity on the decay rate of deuterium is the same as the impact of microgravity.

• Most comets formed from deuterium-based water that was stripped away from early Earth by solar radiation.

• Most of the water that forms the oceans of Earth arrived by way of impacts with Kuiper Belt comets.

• The Kuiper Belt and the oceans of Earth have proportional evaporation rates based on their distance from the Sun.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Which theory of the origin of the Moon proposes that Earth’s moon formed by the same process that formed Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune?

• fission theory

• capture theory

• giant impact theory

• co-accretion theory

Which best describes the Kuiper belt?

• metallic

• rocky

• hot

• icy

Which of these locations in the solar system contains the most asteroids?

• the surface of the sun

• the ring system of Saturn

• between Mars and Jupiter

• between Mercury and Venus

Which statements best describe a difference between comets and asteroids as they travel through space?

• comets are icy; asteroids are rocky

• comets orbit Earth; asteroids orbit the sun

• comets reflect light; asteroids generate light

• comets travel short distances; asteroids travel long distances

Use the diagram to answer the question. What will an observer on Earth see when Earth's orbit crosses the path of the space debris?

• a nebula

• a meteor shower

• a comet tail

• an asteroid

The Moon lacks weather and climate changes like those on Earth. What causes the lack of weather on the Moon?

• the lack of water

• the presence of igneous rock

• the very thin atmosphere

• the lack of magnetic poles