Space Rocks

The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets
• Asteroids
• Meteors
• Stars

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

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

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What are asteroids made of?

• gases

• Rock, metal, and other elements
• snow and ice

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Which of these can become a shooting star?

• Asteroids

• Comets

• Meteroids

• Planets

What causes the tail of a comet to become visible?

• Earth

• Moon

• Sun

• Asteroid

The puffy disk of objects that is aligned with plane of the solar system that lies just outside of Neptune's orbit is called the ______.

• Kuiper Belt
• Oort Cloud
• Scattered Disk
• Plutinos

When a meteor hits Earth, what is it called?

• meteorite
• meteroid
• meteor

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet

What is a meteor called when it's in space?

• meteroid
• meteor
• meteorite