Comets Asteroids and Meteors Vocabulary

What are meteors sometimes called?

• shooting stars
• moons
• satellites
• falling asteroids

When a meteor hits Earth, what is it called?

• meteorite
• meteroid
• meteor

Is a meteor an asteroid?

• Yes
• No

What are meteors made of?

• chunks of rocks and metals

• ice

• iron

• lava

Are meteors bigger than asteroids?

• Yes
• No
• Mabye
• Sometimes

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet

^{Objects made of ice, gas and dust and orbit our sun are called:}

• Asteroids
• Comets
• Meteroids
• Meteors

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

These objects that orbit the sun are nicknamed, "dirty snowballs."

• Comets
• Asteroids
• Meteors
• Meteroids

When objects strike the surface of a planet or moon, they leave a deep impression on the surface called a:

• Pothole 
• Crater
• Canyon
• Plateau