asteroids comets and meteors quiz

They are sometimes called shooting stars.

• interplanetary dust

• asteroids

• comets

• meteors

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

We are composed mainly of rock and metal.

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Which of the following orbits the sun?

• asteroids
• comets
• planets
• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What type of planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune considered?

• inner
• outer
• dwarf

Which land feature is sometimes made when a meteorite lands on Earth?

• canyon
• crater
• river delta
• mountain range

What is found in a belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

• asteroids

• comets

• meteors

Which of these orbiting objects is made of ice, gas, and dust within our Solar System and has a nucleus, coma and tail?

• asteroid

• comet

• meteor

The Sun’s ____________ holds the planets in orbit in our Solar System.

• magnetic field
• gravity
• solar wind

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2