Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors

A ball of ice and rock whose orbit is usually a long, narrow ellipse.

• Comet
• Meteor
• Planet
• Moon

The spinning of an object on its axis is called______

• orbit
• rotation
• revolution
• tide

Planets that are closer to the sun

• take more time to orbit
• take less time to orbit

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

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The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets
• Asteroids
• Meteors
• Stars

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust
• asteroids
• comets
• meteors

Select the pair of bodies which are LEAST alike in composition and size

• asteroid and meteor
• moon and comet
• earth and venus
• uranus and neptune

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A meteorite is DIFFERENT from a comet mainly because

• has a tail of ice and gas
• is found in orbit between Jupiter and Mars
• enters the Earth's atmoshere
• has a nucleus mad of rock and snow.

Which of the following bodies are MOST alike in composition and size?

• Earth and Venus
• Uranus and Neptune
• asteroid and comet
• meteor and asteroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

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