Space Rocks

Huge chunks of rock and metal (some measuring miles wide) and are believed to be left-over pieces of planets and moons are called:

• Comets

• Meteors

• Asteroids

• Meteroids

a small body of rock, ice and dust that orbits the sun in a highly elliptical path; “dirty snowball”

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

A rocky body that produces a streak of light as it burns up in our atmosphere

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

a rocky body that moves through space and is smaller than an asteroid; comes from the Asteroid Belt

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

What is bigger than a meteoroid but smaller than a planet?

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

• Comet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A group of asteroids located between Mars and Jupiter; most asteroids come from here

• Asteroid Belt

• Solar System

• Rocky Planets

• Oort Cloud

The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Meteors

• Stars

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor

• meteorite

• asteroid

• comet

When a meteor hits Earth, what is it called?

• meteorite

• meteroid

• meteor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What are meteors made of?

• chunks of rocks and minerals

• fish

• butterfly wings

• chewing gum

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1