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WorksheetsAstronomy - Space Rocks
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
Where is the asteroid belt found?
Between Mercury and Venus
Between Earth and Mars
Between Mars and Saturn
Between Mars and Jupiter
What do astronomers call comets?
Snowy snowballs
Clean snowballs
Dirty snowballs
Cold snowballs
True or False.
Comets do not follow the same, so it is not easy to predict when one will pass by the Earth again
True
False
Which image best shows a meteor shower?
Yes or No.
A comet which takes more than 200 years to complete one orbit around the sun is called a short-period comet.
Yes
No
One of the most famous short-period comets is called?
Hallie's Comet
Halley's Comet
Hale Comet
Hale-Bopp Comet
When rocks are floating in space, we also call them?
Meteors
Meteorites
Meteoroids
Once a meteoroid hits Earth's atmosphere and burns up it is called?
Dust
Fire
Meteor
Meteorite
Which image best describes a meteorite?
The asteroid belt divides the planets in our solar system into two groups.
These are:
1. _____ planets
2. _____ planets
(a)
