Asteroids, Meteors, & Comets

The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets
• Asteroids
• Meteors
• Stars

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust
• asteroids
• comets
• meteors

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

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
• has a nucleus mad of rock and snow.

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

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

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

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Which list correctly orders the lifecycle of a piece of debris as it passes from space down to Earth's surface?

• meteorite-meteor-meteoroid
• meteor-meteorite-meteoroid
• meteoroid-meteor- meteorite
• meteor-meteoroid-meteorite

What do we call the visible streak of light created by space debris entering Earth's atmosphere?

• meteor
• meteorite

Asteroids "hang out" in our solar system in a place called:

• The Kupier Belt
• The Oort Cloud
• The Planetary Rings
• The Asteroid Belt