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Comets are made up of frozen gas, dust, and __________.
a) ellipses
b) asteroids
c) ice
d) stars

What do you call the long ribbon-like trails of comet gas and dust?
a) gas and dust tails
b) coma and sleep tails
c) rock and mineral tails
d) Oort Cloud and Keiper Belt tails

What do you call the gas cloud that surrounds the nucleus of a comet?
a) orbit
b) meteor
c) nap
d) coma

What do you call the solid, icy part of a comet?
a) tail
b) rocky
c) cloud
d) nucleus

What is a lump of ice, frozen gas, and dust that orbits the Sun?
a) comet
b) asteroid
c) meteoroid
d) orbit

What do you call a small piece of rock or metal that falls onto a planet or moon's surface?
a) satellite
b) comet
c) meteoroid
d) meteorite

What is a small piece of rock or metal that travels through space outside of Earth's atmosphere?
a) shooting star
b) meteorite
c) meteoroid
d) planet

What do you call a large (bigger than four feet) chunk or rock or metal that orbits the Sun?
a) meteoroid
b) comet
c) shooting star
d) asteroid

The tails of a comet always face ______________ the Sun due to solar wind.
a) toward
b) away from
c) east of
d) west of

These small pieces of rock or metal inside Earth's atmosphere are also known as shooting stars.
a) meteors
b) asteroid
c) comet
d) Oort Cloud

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