Comets
What is a comet made of?
What is ice, dust, rock (small meteoroids), and frozen gases? They must say ice.
What is another name they give me? I am not a typical star. I cause a streak to appear across the sky.
What is a shooting star?
What two things am I (asteroid) made of?
What is rock and metal?
What two gases is the Sun made of? What is the reaction called that goes on in the Sun that changes these gases? Must answer both right.
What is hydrogen and helium? What is nuclear fusion that changes hydrogen into helium?
What are the names of the first four planets in the Solar System? What are they made of? Rock, Ice, or Gas?
The first planet is Mercury, second is Venus, third is Earth, and fourth is Mars. They are all made of rock a person could stand on.
Where am I found in the Solar System?
What is beyond the last planet Neptune?
What am I in size in relation to a comet and an asteroid? (Small, medium, or large in size)
What is I am small in size, about a pebble size?
Where can you find me in the Solar System?
What is an asteroid can be found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?
What size star is a star? Small, medium or large in relation to the other stars?
What two rocks (comets, meteors, and asteroids) make a streak in the sky as they approach close to Earth?
What size am I in relation to asteroids and meteors? Am I small, medium, or large?
What is medium in size because I contain meteoroids in me but I am not big enough to be an asteroid?
What is a meteor shower?
What am I in size relation to a meteor and a comet? Am I small, medium, or large in size compared to them?
What is an asteroid is large in size compared to the other two rocks? An asteroid is the parent to a meteoroid rock. It is as big as a few miles or boulder size.
What is hydrogen could be changed to burn faster in the star, the size could be changed to large, or the star could be moved closer to Earth?
What is the names of the last four planets in the solar system after the Asteroid belt? What are they made of? Ice, Rock, or Gas.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? They are all made of gas and sometimes referred to as the Gas Giants.
How is a comet different than an asteroid or planet when it comes to the shape of its orbit?
What is a comet makes an ellipse, oval flipped on its side flying past planets as approaches the Sun and goes around the Sun?
What is I can be found everywhere in the Solar System? I can be found in between planets too.
What is it called when the large rock is in space? What is it called when the rock approaches the atmosphere and begins to burn up? What is it called when the rock hits Earth and creates a crater? Must answer them all right.
Words to use deal with meteor not asteroid
What is meteoroid? What is meteor? What is meteorite?
Why do we see the moon sometimes during the daytime?
What is the Sun never stops reflecting off the smooth surface of the moon? The moon doesn't make its own light but reflects it well at night too.
What are the 3 reasons a planet is called a planet?
1. It must orbit the _________.
2. It must be __________ in shape and also ________ enough that __________ doesn't smash it.
3. It must have an _________ free of space __________.
What is orbit the Sun, must be round in shape, big enough that gravity doesn't smash it. What is it must have an orbit free of any space debris?
A comet melts when it comes close to the Sun. What state of matter does it go from and then into? What happens to the tail as it gets closer to the Sun? Must answer both questions in order to get the points.
The comet melts and changes from a solid to a gas. No liquid stage. The tail becomes longer with gas because the Sun is melting the ice more and more.
What are the three reasons for a meteor burning up in the atmosphere?
What is the speed of the rock is fast at 25,000 mph, the gravity of the planet pulling it in, and the friction that occurs with the atmosphere?
What is the hole in the ground on Earth where a meteor hit it? What state has one of these holes? Must have both right to get your 500 points.
What is a crater? What is Arizona?
Why don't we see stars during the daytime?
What is the Sun is closer to Earth during the daytime and we are facing the Sun so it is very bright that it blocks out all the other light from the stars. It is much like the tennis ball being close to your eyes than the ping pong ball in the experiment.
Why is Pluto no longer a planet anymore and now classified as a dwarf planet?
What is Pluto is a dwarf planet because it crosses into Neptune's orbit and doesn't have an orbit clear of space debris?