Meteoroids and Meteors

Which of the following are often referred to as a falling star?

• meteoroid

• meteor

• meteorites

True or False: Meteoroids can be as small as a speck of dust.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Which of the following are often referred to as a falling star?

• space vacuum

• meteoroid misting

• meteor shower

• atmospheric star

True or False: All meteors eventually become meteorites.

• True

• False

When meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere at high speed, they burn up. Then they are called

• meteors

• asteroids

• comets

• moons

Most meteorites come from

• Mercury

• Mars

• the moon

• asteroids

a former meteoroid that survives its fiery passage through the atmosphere to hit the Earth's surface

• meteoroid

• meteor

• meteorite