Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors Review

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet

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

The tail of a comet usually faces

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

We are composed mainly of rock and metal.

• comets and stars
• stars and meteors
• asteroid and meteors
• comets and asteroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

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

• Asteroid
• Comet
• Meteor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

How does a meteor compare to a meteorite? 

• A meteor is moving through Earth's atmosphere and the meteorite actually lands on Earth
• A meteorite is moving through the Earth's atmosphere and the meteor actually lands on Earth
• Meteors are made up of Carbon and meteorites are made of ice
• They are the same thing

Which object in space is larger?

• Asteroid

• Meteoroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A meteor when it burns in the atmosphere is also known as a ____.

• rock

• shooting star

• ball of ice

rocky metallic objects that orbit the sun but are too small to be considered planets

• Asteroid
• Meteor
• Comet
• Star