Asteroids
Comets
Meteors
A, C, or M?
Forces and Motion
100
Where do Asteroids come from?.
What is an Asteroid belt?
100
When near the sun in their orbit, a comet produces this which glows or reflects sunlight.
What is a comet's tail?
100
A meteor that reaches the ground as a rock.
What is a meteorite?
100
These burn up in the atmosphere due to high speed and friction.
What are meteors?
100
The force of attraction between two or more objects
What is gravity?
200
Asteroids orbit this.
What is the sun?
200
When the comet moves towards the Sun the Tail faces towards the sun.
True or False
What is False?
200
Another name for a meteor.
What is a shooting star?
200
These are only visible when near the sun and their tails form as gas and dust are melted off from the sun’s energy.
What are comets?
200
What two factors affects the strength of gravity.
What is mass and distance.
300
True or false- asteroids are the same as meteoroids.
What is false?
300
The area that comets come from.
What is the Kuiper Belts?
300
When at least 6 meteors fall in one hour.
What is a meteor shower?
300
This consists of dense solids, usually a mixture of iron & rock.
What are meteors?
300
The tendency for an object to resist a change in motion. (At rest, stays at rest / or an object in motion stays in motion)
What is inertia?
400
Many asteroids are found between the orbits of these two planets.
What is Mars and Jupiter?
400
Over a billion comets are grouped out in this area of space.
What is the Oort Cloud?
400
A mass of stone or metal that orbits the sun, but is smaller than a grain of sand or sometimes the size of a pebble.
What is a meteoroid?
400
This consists of rock, dust, & frozen materials.
What is a comet?
400
The red arrow represents this in the model below.
What is gravity?
500
The blue arrow represents this in the model below.
What is inertia?