Directions: Read each question and answer choices carefully and encircle the one BEST answer. AVOID ERASURES.
1. A meteor is a streak of light in the sky caused by a meteoroid passing through Earth's atmosphere. What do
you call the annual light phenomena characterized by many meteors appearing in the sky in a short period of
time?
A. Dispersion
B. Reflection
C. Meteor shower D. Haley's comet
2. Most of this ancient space rubble can be found orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main
asteroid belt. What do you call the fragment from a comet, an asteroid, moon or even mars that orbits
around the sun?
A. Meteor
B. Meteoroid
C. Meteorite
D. Meteor shower
3. Giuseppe Piazzi accidentally discovered the first asteroid between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. What is the
name of the first asteroid that was discovered in 1801?
A. Eros
B. Ceres
C. Ida
D. Halley
4. Scientists estimate that there are more than a million asteroids. Where are asteroids mostly located?
A. Near the sun
C. Near the orbit of the Earth
B. Between Earth and Mars
D. Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
5. Astronomer studies the object in the sky, including planets, galaxies, black holes, and stars. What do you call
the bright object with a tail of glowing gases that is in orbit around the sun?
A. planet
B. star
C. comet
D. asteroid
6. The plasma tail, while immersed in the solar wind and lying in the comet's orbital plane, is pointed away
from the Sun. Why does the plasma tail of a comet always point away from the Sun?
A. The solar wind electromagnetically "blows" the ions directly away from the Sun
B. Radiation pressure from the Sun's light pushes the ions away
C. Gases from the comet, heated by the Sun, push the tail away from the Sun
D. It is allergic to sunlight
7. A number of meteors appear to radiate from one point in the sky at a particular date each year. What is the
name of the meteor shower that first to appear each year?
A. Quadrantid meteor showers
C. Lyrid meteor shower
B. Eta Aquarid meteor shower
D. Geminid meteor shower
8. Meteor showers are named after the constellation in which the radiant is situated. What is the name of the
meteor shower that occurs in early December peaking around December 13 and 14?
A. Leonid meteor showers
C. Geminid meteor shower
B. Ursids meteor shower
D. Eta Aquarid meteor shower
9. The solar system is filled with wide assortment of celestial bodies. Which refers to a doughnut-shaped region
that extends beyond Neptune's orbit?
A. Asteroid belt B. Kuiper belt
C. Oort cloud
D. Ring
10. Comet tails are produced through interaction with either the solar wind or photons of sunlight. How long can
a comet's tail reach?
A. 1-million-kilometer B. 2-million-kilometer C. 10-million-kilometer
D. 100 million​