Other Objects in the Solar System

What is in between the inner planets and the outer planets?

• Asteroid belt
• Kuiper belt
• Sun
• Moon

What's a comet?

• Loose collections of ice, small rocky particles, and dust.
• A circumstellar disc
• Rocky objects that are too small and numerous.
• A streak of light in the sky.

Meteorite is...

• A meteoroid passing through the atmosphere, hitting Earth's surface
• A streak of light in the sky
• Too small and too numerous to be considered a full-fledged planet
• Loose collections of ice, dust, and small rocky particles

The tail of a comet usually faces

• toward the sun
• toward the Earth
• away from the Sun
• away from the Earth

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?

• Asteroid
• Star
• Meteor
• Comet

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust
• asteroids
• comets
• meteors

Which is the correct naming order of rocky particles and their effect on Earth as they move from space to Earth?

• meteor, meteoroid, meteorite, impact crater
• meteoroid, meteor, meteorite, impact crater
• meteoroid, meteor, impact crater, meteorite
• asteroid , meteor, meteorite, impact crater

When objects strike the surface of a planet or moon, they leave a deep impression on the surface called a:

• Pothole 
• Crater
• Canyon
• Plateau

What do comets orbit

• The Stars
• The Planets
• The Sun

What causes meteors to burn up in our atmosphere?

• Heat from the Sun
• Heat from Earth's atmosphere
• They are already so hot that our atmosphere can't handle it
• Friction from the Earth's atmosphere