Comets
Meteors
Asteroids
Vocab
Other
100

What are comets made of?

What is ice, rocks (meteoroids), and frozen gases.

100
The burning up of the rock in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
100
Where are asteroids found in the Solar System?
What is the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter?
100

Which of the following means to spin on its axis causing a day and night?

rotation

100

What are the four rocky planets?

What is Mars, Earth, Venus, and Mercury?

200
What is the most famous comet that appears every 75 years?
What is Halley's Comet?
200
When the meteoroid hits the surface of the Earth, it is known as ______________.
What is a meteorite?
200

Give all three names for the rocky particles that travel through space and try to enter Earth's atmosphere and reach Earth's surface.

Meteoroid, Meteor, and Meteorite



200

What is the word that means that an object travels around another object, giving the planet a "year"

What is a revolution.

200
What are the four gas giants or planets?
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
300

What happens to the comet as it approaches or comes closer to the Sun?

What is the tail will be longer due to the heating up of the iceball and it will speed up as to not be melted as much by the Sun. 

300
A small space rock that orbits around in space and normally breaks off from a comet or asteroid.
What is a meteoroid?
300

What is the "atmosphere of gas" that surround the nucleus of a comet?

coma

300

The shape of comet's orbit - another name for an oval.

What is an ellipse or elliptical?

300

What 2 things affect the pull of gravity on objects?

Mass and Distance

400

How is the orbit of the comet different than the orbit of an asteroid?

What is the comet makes an ellipse or oval shaped orbit around the Sun whereas the asteroid makes a circular orbit around the Sun?

400
In what state did a meteorite strike in the U.S.? What is the name of the hole given for the meteorite?
What is Arizona and crater?
400

What was the first and LARGEST asteroid found by Guiseppe Piazzi?

What is Ceres found in 1801? It is so large now that they have classified it as a dwarf planet.

400

Name the 5 Dwarf Planets

Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and Pluto

400

How would you describe the sizes of the comets, meteors, and asteroids? Name them from smallest to largest

What is meteors are the smallest and are about the size of a baseball or pebble? The comet is the size of 6 to 25 miles. An asteroid is the largest and up to 100 miles in length.

500
Where are comets found in the Solar System?
What is the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto or the Oort Cloud?
500

Name the 3 parts of a comet

Nucleus, coma, and tail

500

What does the ending "oid" mean when it is at the end of a word

That the object is located in outer space.

500

What is the name for the path that an object takes when it travels around another object.

Orbit

500

In 2006 this Planet was reclassified as a Dwarf Planet

Pluto

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