Craters

The biggest craters are formed by...

• The fastest meteoroids

• The sharpest meteoroids

• The smallest meteoroids

• The largest meteoroids

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

Crash between a meteoroid and another object

• Ejecta

• Impact

• Simple Crater

• Asteroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Lunar mares are believed to be formed by...

• large amounts of dirt forming on the surface of the moon.

• large impacts where lava floods the surface to fill the crater.

• large aliens from long ago.

• large ice chunks that eventually melted.

Finish the sentence to describe the relationship between impactor mass and crater size As the impactor mass increases, crater size _______

• Increases

• Decreases

• stays the same

• is random

What is the best evidence that craters were formed by impact events and not volcanoes

• maria

• impacts have been observed

• shocked quartz

• iridium

What type of crater is this?

• simple

• complex

• terraced

• mare

What type of crater is this?

• simple

• complex

• terraced

• mare

Tags

NGSS.4-ESS2-1

What type of crater is this?

• simple

• complex

• terraced

• mare

Finish the sentence to describe the relationship between impactor speed and crater size As the drop height increases, crater size ______

• Increases

• Decreases

• stays the same

• is random

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What was an independent variable in the crater lab?

• impactor mass

• crater diameter

• impactor material

• crater type

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2