
Asteroids, Meteors and Impacts
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Catherine Longley-Cook
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What's the difference between comets and asteroids?
Asteroids are made of metal and rock, while Comets are ice and rock
Asteroids are made of ice and rock, while Comets are made of metals and rock
There is no difference
Asteroids are made of stardust, while Comets are made up of water
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2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What's the difference between meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite?
Meteoroids are small rocks, meteors are streaks of light in the sky, and a meteorite is a meteor that has landed
Meteoroids are huge, Meteors are the pieces that land, and Meteorites are shooting stars
There are no differences
Meteoroids are small, Meteors are another name for comets, and Meteorites are shooting stars
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the composition of most comets?
Rock, Ice, Salt
Magma
Ice, Dust, Rock, Frozen Gases
Rock, Iron
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What causes meteoroids to burst into flames upon entering the Earth's Atmosphere?
They are made out of flammable materials
They cannot handle the pressure of Earth
They do not burst into flames, they only reflect the Sun's light
Friction from the Earths atmosphere
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the invisible force that causes massive objects to pull other objects towards them?
Orbit
Gravity
Energy
Force
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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 made of rock and snow.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
I am sometimes called a shooting star.
meteor
asteroid
comet
star
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