Comets Quiz

What are comets made of?

• Rocks and metal

• Gravel and dirt

• Water and gases

• Dust and ice

What causes the tails of comets to shine?

• Solar wind

• Sunlight

• Gravity

• Atmospheric pressure

Where do comets come from?

• Mars and Venus

• Asteroid Belt and Saturn's Rings

• Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

• Jupiter and Mercury

What is the most visible part of a comet?

• Nucleus

• Coma

• Dust Tails

• Ion Tails

Which famous comet is visible about once every 75 years?

• Halley's Comet

• Shoemaker-Levy 9

• Hale-Bopp

• Comet McNaught

What did Shoemaker-Levy 9 crash into?

• Mars

• Earth

• Jupiter

• Saturn

How often can a major comet be seen from Earth?

• Once every 25-30 years

• Once every 15-20 years

• Once every 5-10 years

• Once every 2-3 years

What did scientists predict about Halley's Comet in the year 2061?

• It will be visible again

• It will collide with Earth

• It will change its orbit

• It will disappear

What is the outer part of the solar system where comets are too small to be seen from Earth?

• Kuiper Belt

• Neptune's Moons

• Asteroid Belt

• Saturn's Rings

What is the term for the path that a comet takes as it orbits the sun?

• Ellipse

• Parabola

• Hyperbola

• Circle