Is the Risk of Disaster from Asteroid Impacts, High or Low

question 63

Multiple Choice

Is the risk of disaster from Asteroid Impacts, high or low? Choose the best answer.

• A) Relatively high because although large asteroid impacts are rare, they can cause catastrophic effects such as mass extinction
• B) Low because asteroid impacts only cause damage in a very local region
• C) High because large asteroid impacts are fairly common
• D) Low because because there are only two documented large asteroid impacts in the Earth's entire geologic history
• E) No one really knows because Asteroid impacts are completely unpredictable.

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