Worksheetsastroids
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What do we find orbiting in the space between Mars and Jupiter?
asteroid belt
asteroid suspenders
astro belt
droid belt
black leather belt
Most of the mass of the asteroids are found...
in asteroids Ceres and Vesta
evenly distributed among all asteroids
in dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Vesta
in the smaller asteroids
Many of the oldest rocks found on Earth...
came from the asteroid belt
came from the Sun
came from Jupiter
are native to Earth
The age of our Solar system is...
4.6 billion years old
4.6 million years old
76 billion years old
7.6 billion years old
During the formation of our solar system, ice particles formed past the "frost line" which is about...
2.7 astronomical units from the Sun
1.5 astronomical units from the Sun
5 astronomical units from the Sun
50 miles north of the arctic circle
Inside of the "frost line", planets formed from...
rock and metals
ice and gases
rock and ice
metals and gases
no one knows, we weren't here then
The asteroid belt most likely formed due to ....
Jupiter's large gravitational pull
Mars' weak gravitational pull
not enough raw material to work with
too much ice melted into water
There are Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid the asteroid belt which of the following isn't involved?
few asteroids are found there
only icy asteroids are found here
orbital periods are integer fractions of Jupiter's orbit
gravitational resonances push asteroids to other orbits
Ceres is a dwarf planet, the smallest of them and is composed of...
rocky ice mix
rocks with lots of metal
a fluffy collection of dust, like cotton candy
a dirty snowball
Vesta is the most massive of the rocky astroids and makes up about...
25% of the asteroid belt mass
15% of the asteroid belt mass
9% of the asteroid belt mass
7% of the asteroid belt mass
The subcompact car sized spacecraft that orbited both Ceres and Vesta was named...
Dawn
Dusk
Morning Riser
High Noon
New Adventure
The Dawn spacecraft used what kind of thrusters to get to the Asteroids?
ion propulsion
chemical rockets
nuclear powered reactors
solid fueled rockets
Vesta, being one of the largest astreoids, has a surface area about ...
the size of California
twice the size of California
twice the size of Alaska
twice the size of Connecticut
The 500 kilometer diameter crater at Vesta's south pole has a central peak that is ...
the 2nd tallest mountain known in the solar system
by far the largest mountain known in the solar system
the 3rd largest mountain known in the solar system
not remarkable, hardly worth mentioning
Vesta's internal structure most closely resembles...
your average asteroid
a rocky planet
a gas giant planet
no other body, totally unique
