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Asteroids, Meteors and Impacts

Authored by Catherine Longley-Cook

Science

6th - 8th Grade

CCSS covered

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Asteroids, Meteors and Impacts
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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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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

Media Image

I am sometimes called a shooting star.

meteor

asteroid

comet

star

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