Space Rocks Review

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

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

Which of the following space rocks is mostly made of ice, gas and dust?

• An asteroid

• A comet

• A meteorite

• none of the above

_______ are small chunks of rock and space junk that have not entered a planet's atmosphere yet.

• meteor

• meteorite

• meteoroid

• comet

When a meteoroid STRIKES the surface of the earth scientists refer to them as:

• Asteroids

• Comets

• Meteors

• Meteorites

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

THE MOVEMENT OF MOONS IS BASED ON _____ AROUND THE PLANETS AND _____ ON THEIR AXIS.

• ROTATION, REVOLUTION
• ORBIT, REVOLUTION
• REVOLUTION, ROTATION
• ROTATION, ORBIT

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

• Comet
• Asteroid
• Meteor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2