Oort Cloud

What are the names of the Oort Clouds Regions?

• Inner and Plainer

• Outer and Exterior

• Inner and More Inner

• Outer and Inner

The third region of icy objects, a spherical cloud which starts roughly 300 billion kilometers out, is called ___

• the Oort Cloud

• the Oort Disk

• the Kuiper Cloud

• the scattered disk

Where do most comets come from?

• In the Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud beyond Neptune's orbit

• In the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Near the Sun

• Earth's atmosphere

The Oort Cloud is the origin of ___

• short period asteroids

• long period asteroids

• short period comets

• long period comets

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

Where do Long-period comets come from?

• Kuiper belt

• Oort cloud

• Past Pluto

Where is the Oort Cloud?

• Between the Sun and Mercury

• After Neptune

• Between the Earth and the Moon

• Between Earth and Mars

What is the Oort Cloud primarily composed of?

• A) Ice and rock

• B) Gaseous clouds

• C) Metallic asteroids

• D) Plasma

Which of the following best describes the shape of the Oort Cloud?

• A) Spherical

• B) Disk-shaped

• C) Cylindrical

• D) Cubical

How far is the Oort Cloud from the Sun?

• A) 1-2 light years

• B) 1-2 astronomical units

• C) 1-2 million kilometers

• D) 1-2 thousand kilometers

What role does the Oort Cloud play in the solar system?

• A) Source of long-period comets

• B) Source of asteroids

• C) Source of solar wind

• D) Source of planetary rings