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Where are most asteroids located?

In the asteroid belt

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What is the nickname of a comet?

Dirty snowball

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What is the nickname of a meteor?

Shooting star

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How are comets, asteroids, and meteors all the same?

They are all left overs from the formation of the solar system.

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Where does she sell sea shells?

on the seashore

200

What 2 planets is the Asteroid Belt in between?

Mars and Jupiter

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What is a comet made of?

Rock, ice and dust materials

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What is a meteoroid made of?

Rocky material and dust

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How are meteors and asteroids the same?

They are both made from rocky material.

200

What is the name of our school mascot?

Bobby the Bobcat

300

What is an asteroid made of?

Ricky material and dust

300

What are the 3 parts of a comet?

Nucleus, coma and tail

300

What do we call it when a meteor hits Earth or another planet?

Meteorite

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What is 1 difference between a comet and an asteroid?

A comet has ice in it and an asteroid doesn’t.

300

What is the name of Wall-E's girlfriend?

E.V.E.

400

The size of asteroids is between _________ km and __________km.

1km and 300km

400

What is the most famous comet called?

Halley's comet

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Where are meteroids located?

In space

400

Why are comets different than both asteroids and meteors?

Comets have a nucleus and a coma and neither a meteor nor an asteroid has those things.  

400

Another name for a costume ball; it's also in the title of a Berlin hit

Masquerede

500

How are asteroids shaped?

They are irregular in shape and battered by impact cratering.

500

How is the tail of a comet made?

Gases that are leaving the coma from the heat of the Sun

500

Where are meteors located?

In a planet's atmosphere

500

What is the difference between a meteroid, meteor, and meteorite?

A meteoroid is a chunk of dust in space, a meteor is a meteorite which has entered Earth’s atmosphere, and a meteorite is a meteoroid which has hit Earth’s surface.

500

What are the 7 base SI units?

Kg (mass), second (time), meter (length), Mole (amount of a substance), ampere (electrical current), Kelvin (temperature), candela (brightness)

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