Asteroids, Comets and Meteors

What happens when the comets go near the sun?

• the tails are developed

• become smaller

• disappear

• burned

Which of the following space objects is made up of rock AND ice?

• Meteroid

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Meteor

What is the main difference between asteroids and meteoroids?

• Asteroids are pieces of comets, whereas meteoroids are pieces of space debris

• Asteroids are only found in the “belt” between Mars and Jupiter

• Meteoroids are generally bigger than asteroids

• Asteroids are generally bigger than meteoroids

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

How do we know if a meteor has made contact with Earth’s atmosphere?

• It burns up and becomes a “shooting star”

• A species like the dinosaurs die out

• We find space rock on the ground

• Humans on Earth die

What is found in the middle of Mars and Jupiter’s orbit?

• Asteroid belt

• Comets

• Meteors

• Planets

What part of the comet forms around a comet's nucleus? This cloud is made by solar wind striking the surface of the nucleus, causing a mixture of gas and dust to form around it.

• Coma

• Fire

• Light

• Ring

Which among the choices is one similarity between asteroids, comets, and meteors?

• come from the Asteroid belt

• come from the Oort cloud

• made of rock

• orbit the Sun

Which best describes the tail of a comet?

• Trails behind the comet, pointing away from the Sun as the comet approaches it, and toward the Sun as the comet moves out of the inner Solar System.

• gas and dust expelled from the comet’s nucleus and blown outward by radiation pressure and the solar wind

• gas and dust pulled off the comet by the Sun’s gravity

• always points away from the Sun

What are meteors made of?

• chunks of rocks and minerals

• butterfly wings

• gas and dust

• fish

When an object from outerspace (comet, meteoroid, asteroid) impacts the Earth's surface what is it called?

• A crater

• Meteorite

• Asterorite

• Meteor shower