Objects in Space!!

The sun...

• Reflects light

• Emits Light

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The moon...

• Reflects Light

• Emits Light

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Planets...

• Reflect Light

• Emit Light

Stars...

• Reflect Light

• Emit Light

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What is made up of gas and ice and reflects light?

• meteor

• asteroid

• comet

• meteorite

An asteroid is a large space rock that orbits the sun and it...

• EMITS LIGHT

• REFLECTS LIGHT

A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic fragment of an asteroid, comet or planet and they...

• EMIT LIGHT

• REFLECT LIGHT

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

We refer to these as shooting stars, but really they are meteoroids that are heating up when entering the earth's atmosphere. This is why they emit light.

• asteroid

• comet

• meteorite

• meteor

A meteor fragment that reaches the ground is called a...

• space rock

• meteorite

• comet

• meteoroid