Draft:Dione/Quiz

Dione is a lecture about a spheroidal astronomical object in orbit around Saturn.

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Quiz
{Yes or No, Dione orbits Saturn at roughly the same distance as our own moon orbits Earth. + Yes - No
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{Complete the text: Match up the blue object with the possibilities below: Sun - H Mercury - I Venus - J Earth - K Meteorite on Mars - L Pallas - M Comet Holmes - N Europa - O Io - P Saturn - Q Enceladus - R Tethys - S Titan - T Neptune - U Abell 370 - V SN 1987A - W Crab Nebula - X { T (i) }. { H (i) }. { N (i) }. { M (i) }. { S (i) }. { X (i) }. { O (i) }. { J (i) }. { V (i) }. { K (i) }. { R (i) }. { W (i) }. { Q (i) }. { L (i) }. { U (i) }. { I (i) }. { P (i) }.
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{Yes or No, The tiny moon Dione is a mere 700 miles wide and appears to be a thick, pockmarked layer of water ice surrounding a smaller rock core. + Yes - No
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{True or False, As it orbits Saturn every 2.7 days, Dione is bombarded by charged particles (ions) emanating from Saturn’s very strong magnetosphere. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Yes or No, The lighter-colored leading hemisphere of Dione is coated with icy dust from Saturn's E-ring, formed from tiny particles ejected from Enceladus' south pole. + Yes - No
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{Complete the text: Match up the letter of the spherical object with each of the possibilities below: Sun - A Mercury - B Venus - C Earth - D Moon - E Mars - F Ceres - G Jupiter - H Callisto - I Europa - J Ganymede - K Io - L Enceladus - M Titan - N Uranus - O Titania - P Neptune - Q Triton - R Pluto - S { M (i) }. { R (i) }. { L (i) }. { H (i) }. { G (i) }. { J (i) }. { P (i) }. { S (i) }. { D (i) }. { O (i) }. { E (i) }. { I (i) }. { K (i) }. { Q (i) }. { N (i) }. { A (i) }. { F (i) }. { C (i) }. { B (i) }.
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{Yes or No, The largest crater on Dione is less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) in diameter and shows a well-developed central peak. + Yes - No
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{Which of the following are associated with hydrocarbons? + liquid lakes on Titan + petroleum deposits on Earth + methane in the atmosphere of Uranus - Dione + atmosphere of Neptune - an H II region
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{Yes or No, Sinuous valleys probably formed by faults breaking the moon's icy crust. + Yes - No
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{A sensor aboard the Cassini spacecraft called the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) detected { oxygen (i) } ions in Dione’s wake during a flyby of the moon in 2010.
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Hypotheses

 * 1) Dione has a frozen surface because it traveled with Saturn from its original or earlier position.