Comets
Meteors
Asteroids
Vocab
100
Where 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

When two space objects come together to make an explosion.

What is a collision?

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
What are asteroids made of?
What is rock and metals?
200
the amount of distance that people use to express how far one space object like a star is from another space object like another star.
What is a light year?
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.

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 it thought that happened to the Earth by an asteroid years ago? "What is the theory?"
What is it caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and left large craters?
300
The shape of comet's orbit - another name for an oval.
What is an ellipse?
400

The trail left behind a comet when sunlight reflects off it.

What is a coma.

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 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
The way planets move because there is a balance between gravity and inertia.
What is an orbit?
500

Where are comets found in the Solar System?

What is the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto or the Oort Cloud?

500

The Chicxulub

The meteor that wiped out the dinasours.

500

What makes asteroids the same as comets?

What is they both orbit the sun.

500

What 2 things cause meteoroids to burn up in the atmosphere?

What is the speed of the meteoroid as it approaches Earth and is pulled by gravity and also the friction of the air causing it to burn?

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