Movement
The Earth is spinning on its axis with one turn every XX hours
one turn every 24 hours
Composed of dust and rock mixed with this (3)
What is frozen water, methane, and ammonia?
After a comet has passed close to the Sun many times, it breaks apart and the small pieces spread out. Those pieces of dust and rock are called this.
What are meteoroids?
A piece of rock similar to the material formed into _____
What is the tail?
The Moon is orbiting around the Earth with one orbit every XX days
one orbit every 27.3 days
Comets are considered to be like large dirty _____
What is snowball?
The difference between meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite depends on this
What is where the rock is located when you are describing it?
An asteroid is smaller than _____ but larger than _____
What is a planet and meteoroid?
An ellipse is also called this
What is an oval shape?
The Earth and all the other planets are orbiting the Sun, all in the same direction, and all in roughly the same plane. The outer planets orbit more _____ than the inner planets
The outer planets orbit more slowly than the inner planets
Comets travel around the sun in this type of orbit
What is elliptical?
This is a space rock that is still in space
What is meteoroid?
Most asteroids are located between the orbits of these two planets
What is Mars and Jupiter?
What is harmless?
The stars appear stationary but actually move in this way
They move very quickly but they are so far away that the motion appears to us to be too slow
When the comet nears the sun, some of it melts and makes this
What is a long tail (gases in the comet are vaporized by the sun)?
This burns up in the earth's atmosphere (shooting star)
What is a meteor?
The location of most asteroids is called this
What is the Asteroid Belt?
The North Star appears to remain stationary in the sky because of this
The North Star lies almost perfectly above the Earth's rotational axis
Standing on the ground, we do not perceive the motion of the Earth, its rotation or its orbit around the Sun instead it seems to us _____
It seems to us as though we are stationary and the sky is moving around us
This happens as the comet moves away from the sun
What is the tail dissappears?
This hits the earth's surface
What is a meteorite?
Gravity of Jupiter might have kept a planet from forming here
What is the Asteroid Belt?
This scale is used for categorizing the impact hazard associated with Near Earth Objects
What is the Torino Scale?