Comets Asteroids and Meteors

Comets Asteroids and Meteors

6th Grade

25 Qs

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Comets Asteroids and Meteors

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Assessment

Quiz

Science

6th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-ESS1-3, MS-ESS2-2, MS-LS4-1

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

25 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A chunk of ice and dust whose orbit is usually a long, narrow ellipse

Meteoroid

Comet

Asteroid

Meteor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

As a comet approaches the sun, the gas and dust heat up and ____________________________.

form a fuzzy coma.

stream outward forming tails.

disappear.

shrink.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which object is like a "dirty snowball" about the size of a mountain?

Asteroid

Comet

Meteor

Meteoroid

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A chunk of rock that enters Earth's atmosphere and produces a streak of light in the sky.

Meteoroid

Meteor

Meteorite

Comet

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A small piece of rock that enters Earth's atmosphere and produces a streak of light in the sky as it burns up.

Meteoroid

Meteor

Meteorite

Comet

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

This was something that left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that is 93 miles wide and 12 miles deep. It brought about the end of the dinosaurs and almost three-quarters of the plant and animal species then living on Earth.

Halley's Comet

Meteor Crater

Apophis

The Chicxulub Impactor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

This small rocky body that reaches Earth's surface without burning up is called a ____.

Meteoroid

Meteor

Meteorite

Asteroid

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