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October 2022 2 8 Report

1. What are meteor showers?
A. Dying stars.
B. Rocks from space found on Earth

2. What causes a meteor shower?
A Comets
B. All of these
C. An eruption of rocks and dust in the sky.
D. Glowing debris in the Earth's atmosphere.
C. Debris
D. The orbit of the Earth

3. What do you call a relatively small (sand-to boulder-sized) fragment of debris in the Solar System?
A. Meteoroid B. Meteorite
C. Meteor
D. Comet

4. What are meteor showers named after?
A The month they occur in
C. The individual who discovered it
B. Roman Gods
D. The constellation which they appear to be falling from

5. What do we call the point in the sky where all of the meteors seem to radiate from?
A Zenith
B. Radiant
C. Comet
D. Origin

6. What is it called when a meteor shower has a frequency of at least one meteor per second?
B. The end of the world
A. Meteor storm
D. Meteor Outburst
C. Meteor shower

7. What is the common name for random meteor storms (not annual meteor showers)?
A. Meteor outburst B. Surprise meteor shower C. Meteor flash
D. Heavy meteor storm

8. What do you call the brief glow behind a meteor?
A Wake
B. Flash
C. Afterglow
D. Trail

9. What do we call a plece of debris from the Solar System when it has reached the ground?
A. Interplanetary dust
B. Meteor
B. Meteorite
D. Meteoroid

10. What do we call the visible path of a meteorold when it enters the Earth's atmosphere?
A Meteor
C. Meteorite
B. Meteoroid
D. Gas tail​

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