Comets Quizizz for Kids

What is a comet?

• a type of space rock

• a gas ball in space

• a meteroid

• an asteroid

Comets are chunks of dust and ___ that travel around the sun.

The head of the comet is called the ________.

• head

• tail

• period

• coma

A comet has 2 tails, a dust tail and an ion tail. How long can some of the comet tails be?

• 100 feet

• hundreds of miles

• millions of miles

• several inches

The Kuiper Belt is just beyond the orbit of which planet?

• Mars

• Earth

• Neptune

• Jupiter

One of the most famous comets is ________ _______.

• Halley's Comet

• Dustin's Comet

• Paw Comet

• Sally's Comet

Review: Comets are sometimes called __________ ________________.

• blue comets

• clean snowballs

• mission comets

• dirty snowballs