Meteors: Book Review

the layer of gases that surrounds a planet

• atmosphere

• meteoroid

• meteor

• Earth

the streak of light produced as a meteoroid burns up in the atmosphere

• meteor

• meteoroid

• atmosphere

• Earth

a small rocky object in space or the atmosphere

• atmosphere

• meteor

• meteoroid

• star

Most stars burn bright for billion of years.

• True

• False

Friction is a force that resists the motion between two objects that are in contact with one another.

• True

• False

As a space rock rubs against gases in the atmosphere, it creates force.

• True

• False

_________________ is a space rock that lands on Earth or another planet.

• meteor

• meteorite

• Sun

• Earth

Most common meteorites on Earth

• stony meteorites

• Iron meteorites

• Stony-Iron meteorites

Easy to spot but they are not common and mixed with metal and rock

• stony meteorites

• Iron meteorites

• Stony-Iron meteorites

The sun is at the center of our solar system, and other objects _____________ it.

• move

• orbit

• fall

• wobble