SOL 6.8 Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors

What is a Comet?

• a rock that orbits the sun

• a glowing group of dust particles

• a ball of ice and dust that orbits the sun

• a ball of fire that orbits the sun

What is #5 in the picture?

• Venus

• Sun

• Asteroid Belt

• Saturn

What is a chunk of rock, metal, or dust in space?

• Meteor

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets

• Asteroid

• Meteors

• Stars

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust
• asteroids
• comets
• meteors

A meteorite is DIFFERENT from a comet mainly because

• has a tail of ice and gas

• is found in orbit between Jupiter and Mars

• enters the Earth's atmosphere and hits the ground

• has a nucleus mad of rock and snow.

Sometimes I am called a "dirty snowball". I have a blue ion tail, a dust tail, a coma, and a nucleus. I am invisible except when near the sun. What am I?

• Asteroid

• Star

• Meteor

• Comet

The tail of a comet usually faces

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

I am several kilometers in diameter, originate beyond the outer gas giant planets, thought to have struck early Earth, consists of ice and dust.

• comet

• asteroid

• meteor

• star dust

We are composed mainly of rock and metal.

• comets and stars
• stars and meteors
• asteroid and meteors
• comets and asteroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1