Comets, Asteroids, Stars and Meteors Check for Understanding

The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comet belt

• Asteroid belt

• Meteor belt

• Where we find all the stars

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust

• asteroids

• comets

• meteors

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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 atmoshere

• is made of rock and snow.

The tail of a comet usually faces

• toward the sun

• toward the Earth

• away from the Sun

• away from the Earth

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We are composed mainly of rock and metal.

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

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Passes by the Sun approximately every 76 years.

• Ion's Comet

• Edmund's Comet

• Halley's Comet

• You're Comet

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This is a rocky mass up to several hundred kilometers wide and revolves around the sun.

• comet

• asteroid

• moon

• star

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Most asteroids have a complete revolution every __________ years. We know this as Mars has a 2 year revolution and Jupiter has a 12 year revolution.

• less than one year

• 1 year like Earth

• 3-6 years

• 15-18 years

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One similarity between asteroids, comets and meteoroids is that they all:

• are made of rock
• come from the Asteroid Belt
• come from the Oort Cloud
• orbit the sun

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

• Pothole 
• Crater
• Canyon
• Plateau

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