6th Grade Unit 8 Lesson 6 Small Bodies in the Solar System

Where are most long period comets likely to be located?

• Oort cloud

• Kuiper Belt

• crossing Earth’s orbit

Between the orbits of which two planets is the asteroid belt located?

• Earth and Mars

• Mars and Jupiter

• Jupiter and Saturn

• Saturn and Uranus

Which is a small, irregularly shaped body made of rock or organic material that orbits the sun?

• comet

• meteor

• asteroid

• meteorite

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People sometimes talk about seeing shooting stars. What do they actually see?

• a meteoroid traveling through space

• a star that is moving through the galaxy

• meteoroid that burns up in Earth’s atmosphere

• a comet that has come close enough to to be seen

What is the object shown here composed of rock, dust, ice, and other frozen substances?

• a comet

• a meteor

• an asteroid

• a meteorite

Of the following bodies that orbit the sun, which body has the slowest orbital speed?

• an asteroid in the asteroid belt

• a Kuiper Belt object

• a comet as it nears the sun

• a dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter

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What is the Oort cloud made up of?

• trillions of comets

• dwarf planets and meteoroids

• some comets and many asteroids

• equal numbers of comets, asteroids, and meteoroids

Which of these objects is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

• the Kuiper Belt

• the Oort Cloud

• the asteroid belt

• all of the meteoroids

Pluto is mainly composed of which materials?

• ice and rock

• hydrogen and helium

• liquid water and rock

• carbon dioxide gas and rock

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Where is the Oort cloud located?

• between the sun and Mercury

• within the asteroid belt

• between the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt

• beyond the orbit of Pluto