Space Rocks

The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets
• Asteroids
• Meteors
• Stars

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust
• asteroids
• comets
• meteors

Sometimes I am called a "dirty snowball". I have a hydrogen cloud, coma, and a nucleus. I am invisible except when near the sun. What am I?

• Asteroid
• Star
• Meteor
• Comet

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet

When a meteor hits Earth, what is it called?

• meteorite
• meteroid
• meteor

Are meteors bigger than asteroids?

• Yes
• No
• Mabye
• Sometimes

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is a meteor called when it's in space?

• meteroid
• meteor
• meteorite

One reason why we do not see too many craters caused by meteorites hitting our Earth is because....

• Only tiny meteorites hit our Earth causing little, tiny craters that we can't always see.
• Meteorites do not hit our Earth.
• Most of them fall into our ocean since 80% of our Earth is made up of water.

This hunk of space rock is made up of frozen ice, gas, and dust.

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Meteor

• Meteorite