P4 english comets

What are comets made of?

(Choose all correct answers!)

• Ice

• Rock

• Dust

• Gas

• Water

How do people also call a comet?

What shape is a comet's orbit?

• Circular

• Triangular

• Rectangular

• Diagonal

What happens when a comet gets near the Sun?

• It glows.

• It burns

• It explodes.

• It splits into 2.

How many tails do most comets have?

• 2

• 1

• 3

• 4

• 3.5

How long can a comet's tail be?

• Thousands of kilometres

• Hundreds of kilometres

• Thousands of metres

• Thousands of miles

The word COMET comes from the word ... in ... language which means ...

• coma - Greek - hair

• come - English - arrive

• comat - Japan - long

• Cosmo - French - Space

According to the passage, what does a comet travel around?

• the sun

• the moon

• other comets

• other planets

Why do comets look as if they are motionless when we see them?

• They are very small

• They are very far away

• They move very slowly

• They move only at night

How does the author help the reader understand what a comet looks like?

• by telling about a famous one

• by explaining how far away it is

• by describing how fast it moves

• by describing it as a dirty snowball