Space Junk

Space Junk

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Flashcard

Other Sciences

6th - 8th Grade

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Hard

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1.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

A meteorite is DIFFERENT from a comet mainly because

Back

enters the Earth's atmosphere

2.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Sometimes I am called a "dirty snowball". I have a hydrogen cloud, coma, and a nucleus. I am invisible except when near the sun. What am I?

Back

Comet

3.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

We are composed mainly of rock and metal. Options: comets and stars, stars and meteors, asteroid and meteors, comets and asteroid

Back

asteroid and meteors

4.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

Back

meteor

5.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What do comets orbit?

Back

The Sun

6.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

When a meteor hits Earth, what is it called?

Back

meteorite

7.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Huge chunks of rock and metal (some measuring miles wide) and are believed to be left-over pieces of planets and moons are called:

Back

Asteroids

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