True or False. Write your answer on your answer sheet.
1. About 200 tropical cyclones enter the Philippine
Area of Responsibility each year.
2. Tropical cyclones require cold ocean waters to be
able to develop
3. The lowest air pressure is at the eye of a tropical
cyclone.
4. The orbit of an asteroid is more rounded and less
elliptical than the orbit of a comet. 5. A meteor
and a meteor shower are light phenomena; they are
not stars
6. Comets are rocky fragments and are believed to
be remnants from the formation of our solar system
billion years ago.
7. Asteroids, comets and meteors are parts of the
solar system. They also revolve round the sun.
8. A meteoroid is a chunk of dust and ice that orbits
around the sun and slowly vaporizes as it goes near
the sun
9. Comets are often seen in the night sky as
"shooting stars”.
10. Asteroid usually come from the Oort cloud
which is beyond our solar system.
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