PART 5 MAIN ASTEROID BELT STUDY GUIDE

asteroids are what and what objects that orbit the sun but are to small to be considered planets?

largest object in the main asteroid belt

diameter of 940 km

largest of the four asteroids and the only dwarf planet inside Neptune's orbit

25th largest body in the solar system within the orbit of Neptune

Heavily cratered with large amounts of ice underground

• Chicxulub

• Ceres

• Tunguska

• Vesta

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

2nd biggest in asteroid belt

brightest asteroid in the sky

first of the four largest asteroids to be visited by a spacecraft

Massive mountain on the southern pole that is over 65,000 ft

• Ceres

• Tunguska

• vesta

• crater

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Space matter that has fallen to the earth's surface from outer space?

• meteoroid

• comet

• asteroid

• meteorite

this happened 65 million years ago, its buried underneath the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. It's about 6 miles wide and it released an estimated 192,000 gigatons of TNT. It may have caused the K-T mass extinction of dinosaurs.

Iridium can be found across the globe.

• Tunguska event

• asteroid

• comet

• Chicxulub

  Crater

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

a layer of can be found across the globe in rock layers around 65 million years ago?

• iron

• stone

• Stoney-iron

• iridium

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

blank is found on meteorites

a blank is an extremely bright meteor, especially one that explodes in the atmosphere.

• bolide

• meteor

• comet

• shooting star

the blank event was a massive explosion in Remote Russia in 1908. The explosion occurred over a sparsely populated area and flattened 80 million trees over an 830 square mile area. The asteroid was believed to be almost 66 ft. wide although it has never been found. If this happened over a populated city, the city would be destroyed. Because the area was so remote, only three people were believed to have died.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

small {dust sized to coin} piece of matter that hits the Earth's atmosphere and burns up.

• meteor

• asteroid

• meteoroid

• meteorite