Comet Asteroid Meteor

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Science
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6th Grade
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Hard
+2
Standards-aligned
Lisa Thompson
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25 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS1-3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A chunk of rock or dust in space that comes from an asteroid or comet.
Meteoroid
Meteor
Meteorite
Comet
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This was something that left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that is 93 miles wide and 12 miles deep. It brought about the end of the dinosaurs and almost three-quarters of the plant and animal species then living on Earth.
Halley's Comet
Meteor Crater
Apophis
The Chicxulub Impactor
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A small piece of rock that enters Earth's atmosphere and produces a streak of light in the sky as it burns up.
Meteoroid
Meteor
Meteorite
Comet
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