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 or are pulled together by gravity.
What is a collision?
100
What are the four rock 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
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?
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 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?
300
What makes the four inner rock planets different than the four outer gas planets? Why are gas planets "gas" and why are rock planets "rock"
What is the four inner planets can withstand rock being hit by the hot sunlight from the Sun and the gases on these planets is able to escape because of no atmosphere whereas the gas planets are further from the Sun and aren't affected by the sunlight as much. Therefore, the gas planets keep their gas because cold gas wants to keep the molecules together.
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 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?
400
How would you describe the sizes of the comets, meteors, and asteroids?
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
How do we get meteor showers?
What is the orbit of Earth and the orbit of the comet meet where the tail of the comet full of meteoroids is left in a trail of dust and shine down on the Earth?
500
What makes asteroids the same as comets?
What is they both orbit the sun, they both have irregular shapes, they are not massive enough to be a planet, spin because of their shape, and have crashed into Earth before.
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?
500
What does the surface of a meteoroid look like?
What is stony, full of iron, and metallic (shiny black)?