Asteroids & Comets Review

One similarity between asteroids, comets and meteoroids is that they all:

• are made of rock
• come from the Asteroid Belt
• come from the Oort Cloud
• orbit the sun

Huge chunks of rock and metal (some measuring miles wide) are believed to be left-over pieces of planets and moons called:

• Comets
• Meteors
• Asteroids
• Meteroids

These objects that orbit the sun are nicknamed, "dirty snowballs."

• Comets
• Asteroids
• Meteors
• Meteroids

The tails of a comet are called... 

• ion tail and dust tail
• Hydrogen tail and gas tail
• Dust tail hydrogen tail
• Coma and gas tail

Where are asteroids found?

• Between Earth and Venus
• Between Jupiter and Saturn
• Between Saturn and Uranus
• Between Mars and Jupiter

The tail of a comet usually faces

• toward the sun
• toward the Earth
• away from the Sun
• away from the Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

These are composed mainly of rock and metal.

• comets and stars

• stars and meteors

• asteroid and meteors

• comets and asteroid

The shape of comet's paths are ________________.

• circular

• elliptical

• irregular

A ball of ice and rock whose orbit is usually a long, narrow ellipse.

• Comet
• Meteor
• Planet
• Moon

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• planet
• asteroid
• comet

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-1