Space

Which of the following describes an asteroid?

• Composed of a nucleus, tail, and coma

• Orbits the sun like a planet

• Floating freely in space

• Shooting star

Which of the following describes a Meteor?

• Found between Mars and Jupiter.

• Orbit the sun like a planet.

• Have an elliptical orbit around the sun.

• Burns up as it enters Earth's atmosphere.

What is the composition of most comets?

• rock, ice, salt and carbon

• rock, ice, magma, frozen gases

• ice, dust, rock, frozen gases

• ice, dust, rock and soil

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

The belt between Mars and Jupiter contains

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Meteors

• Stars

What are sometimes called shooting stars?

• interplanetary dust

• asteroids

• comets

• meteors

What is the difference between a meteor and 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.

Describe a comet's origin and orbit.

• Between Mars and Jupiter, long-elliptical orbit

• Oort cloud or Kuiper belt, circular orbit similar to a planet

• Another galaxy, long-elliptical orbit

• Oort cloud or Kuiper belt, long elliptical orbit

What is the composition of an asteroid?

• Ice, dust, rock, frozen gases
• Rock, ice, salt, carbon
• Metals and rocky material
• Rock, ice, magma, frozen gases

The tail of a comet usually faces

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

Which object in space is larger?

• Asteroid

• Meteoroid