Comets
Meteors
Asteroids
Planets
Other
100
What is comets made of?
What is ice, rock, and dust and small meteoroids?
100
What is it called when the rock is outside of the atmosphere and have not been pulled in by Earth's gravity?
What is meteoroid?
100
What is believed to have happened with asteroids a long time ago?
What is they killed off the dinosaurs because it created a very large hole, sent dust and debris up into the sky knocking out the Sun for awhile so plants couldn't grow and therefore animals including dinosaurs died of starvation.
100
What are the first four planets in order?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
100
How do meteors orbit the Sun?
What is meteors orbit in an ellipse like the planets and asteroids do?
200
Where are comets found in the solar system?
What is near Neptune in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud?
200
What is it called when the space rock strikes the Earth causing a crater?
What is a meteorite?
200
What are asteroids made of?
What is rock and certain metals?
200
What are the last four planets in order?
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
200
Where are meteors or meteoroids found in the Solar System?
What is everywhere in the solar system because they come from asteroids and comets?
300
How does a comet orbit the Sun?
What is in an ellipse that is flipped on its side?
300
Where in the USA has there most recently been a meteor hit? Where in another country did Mr. Rethman show you a video from that caused more problems? You must answer both to get this question right.
What is in the USA - state of Michigan, what is Russia as another country?
300
What is another name for a very bright meteor?
What is a fireball?
300
Why are the rock planets close to the Sun and the gas planets far from the Sun? Why could it not be the other way around?
What is rock planets can withstand the hot temperatures and not change the surface but gas planets if they were to get hot by being close to the Sun would evaporate and leave no more planets.
300
What two rocks could leave streaks in the sky after they fly?
What is comets and meteors?
400
What is another name given to comets?
What is dirty snowballs?
400
Why does a meteor burn up in the atmosphere?
What is speed of the rock is fast being pulled by Earth's gravity and friction of rock and the air?
400
Where do asteroids orbit? Between what two planets?
What is they orbit in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter?
400
Why is Pluto a dwarf planet?
What is Pluto goes into Neptune's orbit, is mostly made of ice compared to rock and gas, and its orbit is not free of other space debris?
400
What is a shooting star?
What is a meteor that is on fire entering our Earth's atmosphere?
500
How does a comet act when it gets close to the Sun?
What is the comet will melt from a solid to a gas and have a gas tail and will drop small meteoroids in its path. The tail always faces away from the Sun and the comet speeds up not to melt.
500
How do we get meteor showers?
What is when a comet passes by Earth and drops its meteoroids in its tail?
500
How would you describe the sizes of comets, meteors, and asteroids? Which one is largest? Which one is medium size? and Which one is smallest? You must answer them all.
What is asteroids are the largest, comets are medium size, and meteoroids are the smallest?
500
What are the three criteria that make a planet a planet?
What is the planet must orbit the Sun or a star, the planet must have a clear orbit of other space debris like asteroids and comets or other planets like Neptune, and it must be round by gravity?
500
What is the hole in the ground after a meteorite has struck? What state in the USA is there one of these?
What is a crater and we can find one in the state of Arizona?
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