Earth/Space Test 5

Which of these planets has the shortest day?

• Mercury

• Earth

• Jupiter

• Mars

The most volcanic object yet discovered in our solar system is:

• Neptune's moon Triton

• Jupiter's moon Io

• Venus

• Earth's moon Luna

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Which of these planets have rings?

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Uranus

• Neptune

• All of these answers are correct.

These are moons of which planet?

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Uranus

• Neptune

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Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• The Kuiper Belt is a region of the Solar System beyond the planetary region, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun.

• The Kuiper Belt consists mainly of small bodies, or remnants from the Solar System's formation.

• The classical belt is home to at least many dwarf planets. For example: Pluto, Eris, Haumea, and Makemake.

• The Kuiper Belt is a hypothesized spherical cloud of comets which may extend out to roughly 50,000 AU, or nearly a light-year, from the Sun.

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The best way to describe this collection of objects in our Solar System is:

• dwarf planets.

• asteroids.

• comets.

• terrestrial planets.

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, heats up and begins to outgas, displaying a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet.

• The origin of comets is not well known because they form at great distances from the Sun.

• Comets are composed of frozen gases and rocky, metallic materials. The frozen gases vaporize when near the Sun, which produces a glowing head called the coma.

• In the late 1970s, following the discovery of comets in the outer Solar System and the recognition of their relatively low mass, their status as major planets began to be questioned.

"Five billion years ago it did not exist. Where it is now sits in the outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy there was just a large cloud of gas and dust." Which of the following does this describe?

• the Orion Nebula

• the Crab Nebula

• Betelgeuse

• a supernova

• the Earth

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________________________ are vast, they cover hundreds of light-years. It was from clouds like these that the earth formed. The clouds are made up from the debris of hundreds of dead stars. When stars from the early years of the universe burned up their fuel they exploded and showered the surrounding space with their ashes.

• Molecular clouds

• Red Giant Stars

• Galaxies

• Galactic Super-Clusters

If the age of the Earth were shrunk down to just 12 hours, when did humans first appear on the planet?

• at the 11 hour and 41 second mark

• at the 6 hour mark

• at the 9 hour and 19 second mark

• at the 4 hour and 16 second mark

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