Comet, Asteroid, Meteor Review

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

We are composed mainly of rock and metal.

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

When a meteor hits Earth, what is it called?

• meteorite
• meteroid
• meteor

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

These objects orbit elliptically.

• Comets

• Meteors

• Asteroids

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Describe a comets origin and orbit.

• Between Mars and Jupiter, long-elliptical orbit
• inner solar system, circular orbit similar to a planet

• Another galaxy, long-elliptical orbit
• outer solar system, long elliptical orbit

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4