Asteroids and Comets

Most of the asteroids in our solar system can be found between which two planets?

• Mercury and Venus

• Venus and Earth

• Earth and Mars

• Mars and Jupiter

Which picture shows a comet?

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Which explains how comets and asteroids are similar?

• they both are made of rock and metal

• they both are made of ice and dust

• they both orbit the Earth

• they both orbit the sun

Only ____ form a tail when they get near the sun.

• moons

• asteroids

• stars

• comets

_____ are made of rock and metal.

• comets

• asteroids

• stars

• galaxies

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Which choice is the best definition for asteroids?

• dirty snowballs

• metallic rocks

• a large collection of stars, dust, and gas

• a natural satellite

What is a proper definition for comets?

• gas giant

• main sequence star

• metallic rock

• dirty snowball