Solar System

The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets
• Asteroids
• Meteors
• Stars

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust
• asteroids
• comets
• meteors

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

When objects strike the surface of a planet or moon, they leave a deep impression on the surface called a:

• Pothole 
• Crater
• Canyon
• Plateau

Tags

NGSS.4-PS3-3

Which space object is larger?

• Asteroid
• Meteor
• Meteorite

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

where are asteroids found?

• between earth and venus
• between Jupiter and Saturn
• between Saturn and Uranus
• between Mars and Jupiter

What is the very core of a comet called?

• Coma
• Comet
• Nucleus
• Hydrogen Cloud

Where do comets originate from?

• our imagination
• the sun
• The Oort Cloud and Kuiper belt 
• unicorn landia  

Where do meteoroids NOT occur?

• Throughout the solar system
• In the asteroid belt
• On Earth