Author: Default2

Space Rocks! Rules
The rules for their play depends on which zone their piece is in.
Leaving the Parent Body Roll an even number and answer a question correctly to move to the Meteoroid Zone.
The Meteoroid Zone: Roll a 5 or a 6, and answer a question correctly to move to the Meteor Zone.
The Meteor Zone: Roll an odd number, and answer a question correctly to move to the Meteorite Zone,
The Meteorite Zone: Roll a 1 and answer a question correctly to land in Antarctica and win.

Which is hit the most by the smallest particles from asteroids and comets?
A. Earth
B. The Moon
C. Mars

Answer: B

Which does an asteroid hit the fastest?
A. Earth
B. The Moon
C. Mars

Answer: A

Where did an impact cause a mass extinction?
A. Earth
B. The Moon
C. Mars

Answer: A

How long have asteroids been hitting the planets?
A. 10 thousands years
B. 5 million years
C. 4.5 billion years

Answer: C

Which hits the Earth most frequently?
A. Comets
B. Asteroids
C. Both hit the Earth at the same rate.

Answer: B

We have not found meteorites on Earth from
A. The Moon
B. Mars
C. Venus

Answer: C

Which does not have meteors?
A. The Moon
B. Mars
C. Earth

Answer: A

On Earth, where do meteorites fall?
A. North America
B. Antarctica
C. Everywhere

Answer: C

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On Earth, when do meteorites fall?
At night
During the day
All the time

Answer: C

What is a meteor?
A. A rock from space
B. A streak of light in the sky
C. A star that explodes

Answer: B

What is a meteorite?
A. A rock from space that has landed on Earth
B. Any rock on another planet
C. A small asteroid

Answer: A

What is a shooting star?
A. A star that explodes
B. Another name for a meteor
C. A piece of a star

Answer: B

What is a meteoroid?
A. A rock that has landed on Earth
B. Another name of a meteor
C. A particle or rock in space

Answer: C

Why does a meteor glow?
A. Meteoroids glow white-hot in our atmosphere
B. Meteoroids ignite our atmosphere
C. The air around the meteoroid is ionized

Answer: C

How fast does a meteoroid move in our atmosphere?
A. Around 50 thousand miles per hour
B. About 30 miles per hour
C. Approximately 100 miles per hour

Answer: A

What is an asteroid?
A. A space rock less than a thousand km wide
B. A type of star
C. A rock that has landed on Earth

Answer: A

Which of these is not an asteroid?
A. Ceres
B. Mars
C. Vesta

Answer: B

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Do large or small asteroids hit the Earth more frequently?
Large asteroids strike more frequently.
Small asteroids strike more frequently.
All asteroids hit the Earth at the same rate.

Answer: B

What causes meteor showers?
Earth passes through a trail of comet dust
Asteroids explode above our atmosphere
Rain forms due to an asteroid impact

Answer: A

What are the different types of meteorites?
A. Fast and slow
B. Icy, rocky, and iron
C. Stony, iron, and stony-iron

Answer: C

What do most meteorites look like?
A. Silver and round
B. Dark crust and irregular-shaped
C. Black and shiny

Answer: B

Which is a meteor shower?
A. The Perseids
B. The Katydids
C. The Lemonids

Answer: A

What makes an impact crater on the surface of a planet or moon?
A. A comet or asteroid exploding on the surface
B. A meteorite melting the surface
C. An asteroid bouncing off the surface

Answer: A

What are the types of asteroids?
Round, Oblate, and Irregular
Carbon-rich, Stony, and Metallic
Icy, Sandy, and Rocky

Answer: B

Asteroids cannot have _________ .
A. Craters
B. Hurricanes
C. Ice

Answer: B

Where do most meteorites come from?
A. The Moon
B. Asteroids
C. Andromeda

Answer: B

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What is another name for a lunar meteorite?
Brie
Moonite
Lunaite

Answer: C

How fast does a rock need to go to escape from the Moon’s gravity?
A. about 1.5 miles per second
B. about 15 miles per second
C. about 150 miles per second

Answer: A

How many meteorites have we found from the Moon?
A. about 4
B. about 400
C. about 40,000

Answer: B

Where on the Moon do lunar meteorites come from?
A. the Maria
B. the Highlands
C. all over the Moon

Answer: C

How many lunar meteorites were seen falling as a meteor?
A. 0
B. 10
C. 15

Answer: A

A lunar meteorite has never been found on which continent?
A. Antarctica
B. Africa
C. North America

Answer: C

In what year was the first identified lunar meteorite found?
A. 1701
B. 1981
C. 2019

Answer: B

How fast does a rock need to go to escape from the gravity of Mars?
A. 3 miles per second
B. 30 miles per second
C. 300 miles per second

Answer: A

How many meteorites have we found from Mars?
A. 12
B. 224
C. 4,048

Answer: B

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Which type of Mars meteorite was found in Shergotty, India?
A Nakhlite
A Chassignite
A Shergottite

Answer: C

Which asteroid is the OSIRIS REx mission orbiting?
Vesta
Ceres
Bennu

Answer: C

Which of these asteroids has been identified as the source for many meteorites?
Vesta
Ceres
Bennu

Answer: A

About how old are the oldest Mars meteorites?
A. Under 4 thousand years old
B. About 4 million years old
C. Over 4 billion years old

Answer: C

Mars meterorites with “NWA” in their names were found in ______ .
A. Northwest Africa
B. Northwest America
C. Northwest Antarctica

Answer: A

After leaving Mars, how long did meteorite Dhofar 019 spend in space?
A. 3 years
B. 20 million years
C. 4 billion years

Answer: B

Which helps identify meteorites from Mars?
A. Their weight is lighter.
B. The color is redder.
C. The gas composition matches
Mars’ atmosphere.

Answer: C

Many meteorites found on Earth formed when Vesta ___________ .
Was hit by another asteroid a billion years ago.
Had an enormous volcanic eruption.
Exploded.

Answer: A

Iron meteorites come from ________.
The cores of shattered planetary bodies.
Iron asteroids.
Mars.

Answer: A

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