WorksheetsSOL 6.8 Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 30mins
What is a Comet?
a rock that orbits the sun
a glowing group of dust particles
a ball of ice and dust that orbits the sun
a ball of fire that orbits the sun
What is #5 in the picture?
Venus
Sun
Asteroid Belt
Saturn
What is a chunk of rock, metal, or dust in space?
Meteor
Comet
Meteoroid
Meteorite
The belt between Mars and Jupiter
Comets
Asteroid
Meteors
Stars
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 atmosphere and hits the ground
has a nucleus mad of rock and snow.
Sometimes I am called a "dirty snowball". I have a blue ion tail, a dust tail, a coma, and a nucleus. I am invisible except when near the sun. What am I?
Asteroid
Star
Meteor
Comet
I am several kilometers in diameter, originate beyond the outer gas giant planets, thought to have struck early Earth, consists of ice and dust.
comet
asteroid
meteor
star dust
The tails of a comet are called...
Blue ion gas tail and dust tail
Hydrogen tail and gas tail
Dust tail hydrogen tail
Coma and gas tail
what is the comets tail made out of?
gases
dust
all of the above
ice
What do comets and asteroids have in common?
They all are made of ice
They all hit Earth's surface
They all orbit the sun
They have nothing in common
Which of the following describes a Comet?
Shooting star
Generally found between Mars and Jupiter
Orbit the sun like a planet
Composed of a nucleus, coma, and tails
What are meteors made of?
chunks of rocks and/or metals
Ice
Air
Gas and debris
What is the region of the solar system far beyond the orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto in which billions of comets orbit unless one is pulled into a highly eccentric elliptical orbit by a star such as our sun.
Oort Cloud
Asteroid Belt
Earth Belt
Stratus Cloud
A region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, believed to contain many comets, asteroids, and other small bodies made largely of ice.
Leather Belt
Orion's Belt
Kuiper Belt
Chain Belt
Which of these is the smallest?
Asteroids
Comets
Meteroids
Planets
Which of these can be the largest?
Asteroids
Comets
Meteroids
Meteorites
Which of these can become a shooting star?
Asteroids
Comets
Meteroids
Planets
Many asteroids are found between Mars and which other celestial body?
Moon
Earth
Jupiter
Saturn
What causes the tail of a comet to become visible?
Earth
Moon
Sun
Asteroid
When a comet nears the sun, what happens to the nucleus?
Becomes solid
Becomes visibile
Becomes gas
It disappears
You could name this if you were the first to see it.
comet
asteroid
moon
star
Passes by the Sun approximately every 76 years.
Ion's Comet
Edmund's Comet
Halley's Comet
You're Comet
This is a rocky mass up to several hundred kilometers wide and revolves around the sun.
comet
asteroid
moon
star
This planet's gravity holds most asteroids in the area beyond Mars.
Mars
Uranus
Venus
Jupiter
A small piece of an asteroid.
meteor
meteoroid
meteorite
asteroid
Shooting stars
meteor
meteorite
meteoroids
Forms when a meteoroid hits the Earth's atmosphere.
meteor
meteoroids
meteorites
A piece of meteor that lands on Earth.
asteroid
meteor
meteorite
meteoroid
Why don't more asteroids hit Earth?
Earth's atmosphere burns them up
They don't like Earth
Most asteroids orbit in the asteroid belt
They do, we just don't see them
The coma and tail only form when the comet gets close to ______________.
Earth
Jupiter
Sun
Venus
The shape of comet's paths are ________________.
circular
elliptical
irregular
