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Asteroids, Meteoroids, And Comets
Test Description: What are asteroids, meteoroids, and comets?
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What do you call a large (bigger than four feet) chunk or rock or metal that orbits the Sun?
A
comet
B
meteoroid
C
shooting star
D
asteroid
2) What is a small piece of rock or metal that travels through space outside of Earth's atmosphere?
A
meteorite
B
shooting star
C
planet
D
meteoroid
3) What do you call a small piece of rock or metal that falls onto a planet or moon's surface?
A
satellite
B
meteorite
C
meteoroid
D
comet
4) What is a lump of ice, frozen gas, and dust that orbits the Sun?
A
orbit
B
meteoroid
C
asteroid
D
comet
5) What do you call the solid, icy part of a comet?
A
tail
B
nucleus
C
cloud
D
rocky
6) What do you call the gas cloud that surrounds the nucleus of a comet?
A
orbit
B
nap
C
meteor
D
coma
7) What do you call the long ribbon-like trails of comet gas and dust?
A
coma and sleep tails
B
Oort Cloud and Keiper Belt tails
C
rock and mineral tails
D
gas and dust tails
8) Comets are made up of frozen gas, dust, and __________.
A
ice
B
stars
C
asteroids
D
ellipses
9) The tails of a comet always face ______________ the Sun due to solar wind.
A
away from
B
toward
C
west of
D
east of
10) These small pieces of rock or metal inside Earth's atmosphere are also known as shooting stars.
A
comet
B
Oort Cloud
C
meteors
D
asteroid
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