Comets, asteroids, meteors and eclipses

Comets, asteroids, meteors and eclipses

6th - 9th Grade

38 Qs

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Comets, asteroids, meteors and eclipses

Comets, asteroids, meteors and eclipses

Assessment

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Science

6th - 9th Grade

Medium

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1, CCSS.RI.5.5, NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

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38 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

They are sometimes called shooting stars

interplanetary dust
asteroids
comets
meteors

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

I am several miles in diameter, originate beyond the outer plants, thought to have struck early Earth, consists of bodies of ice, stone and organic compounds 

comet
asteroid
meteor
star dust

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The dust tail of a comet always....

faces toward the sun

faces toward the Earth

trails behind the comet

away from the Sun

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

meteor
meteorite
asteroid
comet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What's the difference between comets and asteroids?

Asteroids are made of metal and rock, while Comets are ice and rock

Asteroids are made of ice and rock, while Comets are made of metals and rock

There is no difference

Asteroids are made of stardust, while Comets are made up of water

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Where do Long-period comets come from?

Kuiper belt

Oort cloud

Past Pluto

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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