Space Vocabulary Review

Select all ingredients a comet is composed (made) of

• Dust

• Iron

• Ice

• Small rocky particles

Asteroids are found in a region called the

• Kuiper Belt

• Asteroid Belt

• Oort Cloud

• Earth's surface

The asteroid belt is located between which 2 planets?

• Mercury and Venus

• Jupiter and Saturn

• Uranus and Neptune

• Mars and Jupiter

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

A comet forms a tail when

• It is deep in outer space and begins to melt

• It gets close to the sun and begins to melt

What do asteroids, comets and meteors all have in common?

• They are all made of rock/iron

• They are all made of ice and dust

• They all orbit the sun

• They are all found in the asteroid belt

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A _____________ bursts through Earth's atmosphere at amazingly fast speeds and appears as a "shooting star"

• Meteorite

• Meteor

• Meteoroid

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

A meteor that does NOT burn up in Earth's atmosphere and reaches Earth's surface

• Meteorite

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

Gas giants

• Inner planets
• Outer planets
• Both
• Venus

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Mercury, Venus, Earth, & Mars

• Inner planets
• Outer planets
• Both
• Pluto

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune

• Inner planets
• Outer planets
• Both
• Earth