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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. Who named Pluto to be the ninth planet in the solar system?

a. the International Astronomical Union
b. tombaugh and other scientists
c. a space probe

d. researchers at the Hayden Planetarium at New York's American Museum
of Natural History

2. What information is given first in the article?

a. Astronomers have been debating the definition of the term planet.
b. Some eccentricities have led some astronomers to conclude that Pluto is
really a comet or an asteroid.
c. Scientists argue that Pluto is merely a very large Kuiper Belt object.
d. A planet orbits a sun and not another planet, and it is large enough for its

own gravity to make it round.

3. Why is it possible that Pluto might not be a planet?
a. Pluto does not orbit the Sun on the same plane as the other planets.

b. Pluto is a ball of ice smaller than the moon that orbits Earth.
c. none of the above
d. all of the above

4. What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars referred to as?
a. giant gas planets
b. rocky, terrestrial bodies

c. comets
d. asteroids

5. When will we be able to know what exactly Pluto is?

a. 2006
b. 2010
c. 2012
d. 2016

6. Which sentence uses the word pronounced in the same way it is used
in the article?
a. The judge pronounced the defendant guilty.
b. Jake always pronounced his R’s like L’s.

c. She had pronounced views on politics.
d. none of the above

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