Meteoroids and Meteors

Before it becomes a "shooting star", the actual bit of solid stuff coming from space is called ___

• a meteoroid
• a meteor
• a meteorite
• an asteroid

The phenomenon of a meteoroid getting hot and blazing across the sky is called ___

• a comet
• a meteor
• a meteorite
• an asteroid

If a meteor hits the ground, we call it ___

• a meteoroid
• a fallen star
• a meteorite
• an asteroid

When a meteoroid enters our atmosphere, it can be moving at speeds up to __

• 70 kilometers per hour
• 700 kilometers per hour
• 70 kilometers per second
• 700 kilometers per second

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What's the difference between meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite?

• Meteoroids are sand size, meteors are streaks of light in the sky, and a meteorite is the meteors that has landed

• Meteoroids are huge, Meteors are the pieces that land, and Meteorites are shooting stars

• There are no differences

• Meteoroids are small, Meteors are another name for comets, and Meteorites are shooting stars

What causes Meteoroids to burst into flames upon entering the Earth's Atmosphere?

• They are made out of flammable materials

• They cannot handle the pressure of Earth

• They do not burst into flames, they only reflect the Sun's light

• Friction from the Earths atmosphere

What do we call the path of an object that revolves around another object in space?

• Gravitational pull

• Orbit

• Free fall

• Spinning

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What is the invisible force that causes massive objects to pull other objects towards them?

• Orbit

• Gravitational Pull

• Might

• Force

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A meteorite is DIFFERENT from a comet mainly because

• has a tail of ice and gas

• is found in orbit between Jupiter and Mars

• enters the Earth's atmoshere

• has a nucleus made of rock and snow.

A light streaking across the night sky is classified as a/an....

• Meteorite
• Asteroid
• Comet
• Meteor