Meteoroids, Meteors, Meteorites

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Science

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6th - 8th Grade

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MS-ESS1-3, MS-ESS3-2

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Smitha Mathen

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How does a meteor compare to a meteorite?

A meteor is moving through Earth's atmosphere and the meteorite actually lands on Earth

A meteorite is moving through the Earth's atmosphere and the meteor actually lands on Earth

Meteors are made up of Carbon and meteorites are made of ice

They are the same thing

Multiple Choice

What do comets and asteroids have in common?

They both have a long elliptical orbit

They orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter

They are both made up of rock, ice, and gas

They are both leftovers from the materials that formed the solar system

Multiple Choice

What is one difference between an asteroid and comet?

A comet orbits the sun and an asteroid does not

An asteroid is formed from leftovers from the formation of the solar system and a comet is not

When a comet comes near the sun it loses material while an asteroid typically remains solid

An asteroid orbits the sun in the oort cloud while a comet orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter

Multiple Choice

They are sometimes called shooting stars

interplanetary dust

asteroids

comets

meteors

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Sometimes I am called a "dirty snowball". I have a hydrogen cloud, coma, and a nucleus. I am invisible except when near the sun. What am I?

Asteroid

Star

Meteor

Comet

Multiple Choice

When a meteor hits Earth, what is it called?

meteorite

meteroid

meteor

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One similarity between asteroids, comets and meteoroids is that they all:

are made of rock

come from the Asteroid Belt

come from the Oort Cloud

orbit the sun

Multiple Choice

What is this object?

Meteoroid

Meteor

Meteorite

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