Shooting Star Quiz

A Shooting Star is Actually a

• Owl City

• Meteoroid

• Asteroid

• A flying star

A ________ is when a particle of rock and dust that creates a streak of light in the Earth's atmosphere and has contact with the Earth's surface

• Meteor

• Meteorite

If the piece of rock is bigger than 10 meters it is a _____ and if its smaller than a grain it is a _______

• Asteroid and Micro-meteor

• Meteor and Micro-meteor

• Asteroid and Meteor

• Micro-meteor and Meteor

A meteorite is a piece of a comet or asteroid

• True

• False

Where will you most likely see a Iron meteorite?

• Sky

• In a Museum

• In a meteor shower

• On Earth

______ and ______ are types of Stony Irons

• Chondrites and Achondrites

• Achondrites and Pallasites

• Pallasites and Mesosiderites

• Chondrites and Mesosiderites

Mesosiderites and Pallasites are types of ________

• Stony Meteorites

• Iron Meteorites

• Stony-Iron Meteorites

• Dinosaurs

A Meteorite is a made up of....

• dust and water

• ice and rock

• dust and parts of an asteroid/comet

• parts of an asteroid and ice

What 2 famous types of meteor showers occur annually?

• Mario and Luigi

• Leonids and Perseids

• Alpha and Omega

A meteoroid can be a part of

• A comet

• The Moon and Mars

• A asteroid

• All of the Above