Space Rocks

Space Rocks

By Mark Anthony Natura

A.    identify basic facts about the solar system;

B.      compare and contrast meteoroids, comets and asteroids;

C.    predict the reappearance of comets based on recorded data on previous appearances; and

D.     confront superstitious beliefs related to space rocks using scientific evidences.

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OBJECTIVES

​WHICH SPACE ROCK AM I?

Multiple Choice

I am located in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

Multiple Choice

I am a fragment from other interplanetary materials that fall towards Earth.

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

Multiple Choice

I am a streak of light produced by burning when I enter the Earth's atmosphere.

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

Multiple Choice

I am a part of a space rock that does not completely burn up in the Earth's atmosphere and I collide with the ground.

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

Multiple Choice

I am sometimes known as a dirty ice ball.

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

Multiple Choice

I have an icy body and I orbit the sun in an elliptical pattern.

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

Multiple Choice

I have an icy body and I orbit the sun in an elliptical pattern.

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

Multiple Choice

I have a diameter that can range up to 1000 km that is why we are sometimes called minor planets.

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

Multiple Choice

I am a small rocky particle that moves through space and most of the time I am as big as a grain of sand.

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite