Comets

What are the comets often referred to as?

• Dirty Snowballs

• Satellites

• Asteroids

What type of orbit do comets have?

• Orbital

• Circular

• Elliptical

• Rectangular

When it turns from solid to gas without turning to liquid first is called what?

• Dirty Snowball

• Evaporate

• Sublimated

• Extraction

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The fuzzy atmosphere around a comet is called?

• Coma

• Nucleus

• Tail

• Dirty Snowball

Chunks of dust, dirt, and ice that is still solid is what part of the comet?

• Coma

• Tail

• Nucleus

What are the three parts of a comet?

• Coma

• Asteroid

• Tail

• Nucleus

Does the tail of a comet point toward or away from the sun?

• Toward

• Away

Gases from the coma that produce this part of the comet is called _______

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Time it takes for a comet to orbit the sun

• Pause

• Period

• Length

• Year

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Short period comets take less than _ years to orbit the sun