CPO Earth Science Chapter 17 Question Preview (ID: 43275)


This Quiz Contains The Vocabulary In CPO Earth Science's Textbook Chapter 17. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Objects in motion want to stay in forward motion
a) inertia
b) ellipse
c) orbit
d) satellite

This object does not completely burn up in the atmosphere and strikes the surface of a moon or planet
a) meteorite
b) meteor
c) asteroid
d) comet

A chunk of comet or asteroid that broke off. Burns off and becomes smaller as it heads towards Earth.
a) meteor
b) meterorite
c) asteroid
d) comet

Occurs when Earth intersects a cometary orbit and comet particles burn up as they enter Earth's upper atmosphere
a) Meteor shower
b) meteor
c) asteroid
d) comet

It takes one year for Earth to complete this motion moving around the sun.
a) revolve
b) rotate
c) axis
d) ellipse

When earth spins this on it's axis (24 hours for it to rotate once (a day) responsible for day)
a) rotate
b) revolve
c) ellipse
d) orbit

A ball of frozen dust and rock that orbits the sun and has a tail that glows
a) comet
b) meterorite
c) meteor
d) asteroid

This is a small rocky body too small to be a planet
a) asteroid
b) comet
c) meteor
d) meteroite

This is the shape of the orbit Earth follows
a) ellipse
b) orbit
c) axis
d) revolve

The imaginary line that causes Earth to tilt. It causes seasons.
a) axis
b) orbit
c) revolve
d) rotate

The elliptical path that a satellite takes is called a(n)
a) orbit
b) axis
c) rotate
d) revolve

Scale model
a) a representation of something that is either too big or too small in order to understand it better
b) This must be solid objects to represent real things.
c) A movie or video to show real things.
d) A map that shows something real.

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