unit 9 Survival engineering

Most scientists agree that the..... of a large asteroid or meteor hitting the Earth is real.

• danger

• collision

• threat

• extinction

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A meteor flashed across the sky and broke up over the city of .....

• Moscow

• Novosibirsk

• Kazan

• Chelyabinsk

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

The Earth has been .... many times in the past by large objects.

• destroyed

• hit

• approached

• struck

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Many scientists believe that the ...... of dinosaurs was a result of this collision.

• loss

• extinction

• vanishing

• disappearance

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The rock 2005 YU55 was first seen in .......

• October

• November

• March

• December

The space agency classified the asteroid as potentially........

• dangerous

• risky

• hasardous

• disasterous

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Russian space researchers plan to send a ... to the asteroid.

• satellite

• spacecraft

• superbug

• probe

Other methods include ....... it with missiles.

• shooting

• hitting

• using

• throwing

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CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5