Download Learning Set 1: Formative Assessment

Name: _________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ hr:_________
Learning Set 1: Formative Assessment
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. What is the name of a small object that enters Earth's atmosphere and reaches the ground without burning
up?
a. coma
c. asteroid
b. meteorite
d. comet
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2. A rounded depression in the surface of a planet or moon is called a:
a. fusion point.
c. crater.
b. star trail.
d. none of these
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3. The bottom of an impact crater is called the:
a. floor.
b. rim.
c. depth.
d. ejecta.
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4. The material thrown out of an impact crater during impact is called:
a. ray.
c. depth.
b. rim.
d. ejecta.
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5. What is the name of the variable that you can “control?”
a. manipulated
c. control
b. independent
d. responding
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6. This is an educated guess, or prediction of what will happen in the experiment?
a. Controlled variable
c. Variable
b. Hypothesis
d. none of these
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7. Which of the following does not affect the size and shape of an impact crater?
a. angle of impact
c. mass of object impacting
b. Size of object impact
d. none of these
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8. An object that collided with the surface of the Moon at a low angle would produce an impact crater with
which type of shape?
a. round
c. cone
b. oval
d. square
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9. Objects that are moving at high speeds will produce an impact crater that is:
a. large and shallow.
c. small and deep.
b. small and shallow.
d. large and deep.
____ 10. Which factor has the least affect on the diameter of an impact crater?
a. mass of impacting object
b. size of impacting object
c. All three factors affect the impact crater size equally.
____ 11. The Barringer crater in Arizona was most likely formed by a:
a. volcano.
c. meteorite.
b. earthquake.
d. geotherm.
Name: _________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ hr:_________
____ 12. Astrogeology combines the fields of:
a. astrology and geology.
b. biology and astrology.
c. astronomy and geology.
d. geology and biology.
____ 13. The major reason cratering is less evident on Earth than on the Moon is due to:
a. different types of impacting objects.
b. the lack of an atmosphere on the Moon.
c. the presence of silicon in Earth's crust.
d. none of these
____ 14. Which of the following is not a typical agent of erosion on Earth?
a. wind
c. gravity
b. water
d. sound
____ 15. What is the name of the process in which rocks at Earth's surface are broken down into smaller pieces?
a. erosion
c. cratering
b. weathering
d. none of these
____ 16. As compared to the surface of Earth, the surface of the Moon is:
a. much older.
c. much younger.
b. about the same age.
____ 17. Most of the Moon's large craters are estimated to be about:
a. one hundred years old.
c. one billion years old.
b. one million years old.
d. one trillion years old.
____ 18. A small-solar system body that has the potential of colliding with Earth is called a:
a. meteoroid.
c. meteorite.
b. meteor.
d. none of these
____ 19. What is the naming progression of a small-solar system body as it moves from outer space towards Earth?
a. meteor - meteorite - meteoroid
c. meteoroid - meteorite - meteor
b. meteorite - meteor - meteoroid
d. meteoroid - meteor - meteorite
____20. A region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter in which most asteroids are located.
a. coma
C. asteroid belt
b. asteroid
d. dwarf planet
____ 21. Meteors glow as they enter Earth's atmosphere due to:
a. compressed air.
c. chemoluminescence.
b. bioluminescence.
d. none of these
____ 22. These are irregularly shaped rocks that revolve around the sun but are too small to be considered planets.
a. Comets
c. Asteroid.
b. Asteroid belt.
____ 23. Which receives more meteorite strikes per year?
a. the Moon
b. the Earth
____ 24. The asteroid belt is located between which two planets?
a. Jupiter and Mars
c. Venus and Earth
b. Jupiter and Saturn
d. Mars and Earth
Name: _________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ hr:_________
____ 25. Which is the smallest of the dwarf planets in our solar system?
a. Ceres
c. Eris
b. Pluto
d. Makemake
____ 26. Asteroids mainly consist of ____________________; comets consist of ___________________.
a. metal; rock
c. ice, metal
b. rock, ice
d. none of these
____ 27. Comets are made up of mostly, _______________ and ________________.
a. ice, dust
b. Snow, dirt
c. gas, ice
____ 28. Jupiter’s surface is composed of __________________ and _______________.
a. rocks, gas
c. dust, rocks
b. hydrogen, helium.
d. hydrogen, rocks
____ 29. Comets are named after:
a. the months of the year.
b. the signs of the zodiac
b. the signs of the zodiac.
C. the people who discovered them
d. none of the above
Name: _________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ hr:_________
Close Reading (10 points)
Use the Yellow close reading cards in your table folder to do a close reading on the following
article. You will be graded on all 6 parts.
Craters on the Moon
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Name: _________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ hr:_________
Directions: Fill in the boxes with the appropriate terms from the word bank.
Word Bank for the
Picture
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Floor
Impact Crater
Ray
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Rim
Wall
Rim
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