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    Worksheets Name

    CHAPTER 13 METEOROID, ASTEROID, COMET Class


    Total questions: 20
    Worksheet time: 20mins Date

    1. What are the major parts of a comet?

    a) Body and neck b) Body and tail


    c) Head and tail d) Nucleus,neck and tail

    2. What is the meteoroids?

    a) Solid particles that are not moving b) Large pierces of rocks in the solar system
    c) solid particles that are build from ice d) Debris of rocks and iron floating in space

    3. Which of the following is known as the small planet?

    a) Meteor b) Comet
    c) Asteroid d) Meteoroid

    4. Which of the following is not an example of asteroids?

    a) Vesta b) Apollo
    c) Amor d) Aten

    5. What do we call a meteor that has reached the Earth?

    a) Comet b) Meteorite
    c) Meteoroid d) Asteroid

    6. How can the Earth may slide away from its orbit?

    a) When a comet burns b) When the Earth is hit by an enormous asteroid


    c) When a crater is formed on the Earth d) When there is valcano eruption
    7.
    What is the definition of an Asteroid?

    a) A small rocky body orbiting the Sun between Mars b) A celestial body with a nucleus of ice and dust, has a
    and Jupiter tail
    c) A small body or object that enters Earth’s d) A small rocky body that reaches Earth’s surface
    atmosphere

    8.
    What is the definition of a Comet?

    a) A small rocky body, orbits the Sun between Mars & b) An object with a nucleus of ice and dust that has a
    Jupiter tail
    c) A small rocky object that enter Earth’s atmosphere d) An object that touches down on Earths surface

    9.
    What is an object called when it enters Earth’s atmosphere but DOES NOT reach the surface?

    a) Meteoraid b) Meteorite
    c) Meteoroid d) Meteor
    10.
    What is it call when dozens of space rocks fall into earth’s atmosphere & burn up all at once?

    a) Asteroid showers b) Comet showers


    c) Meteor shows d) Meteor showers

    11.
    What is the name of the famous comet that flies by Earth every 75 years?

    a) Heathers Comet b) Halie’s comet


    c) Hailey’s Comet d) Halleys Comet

    12. How does the orbit of a comet compare to the orbit of a planet?

    a) Comets have a shorter rounder orbit than a planet b) Comets have a longer more oblong like orbit than a
    planet
    c) They have the same orbit d) Comets do not have an orbit, they are all random

    13. What's the difference between meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite?

    a) Meteoroids are sand size, meteors are streaks of b) Meteoroids are huge, Meteors are the pieces that
    light in the sky, and a meteorite is the meteors that land, and Meteorites are shooting stars
    has landed
    c) There are no differences d) Meteoroids are small, Meteors are another name
    for comets, and Meteorites are shooting stars

    14. What is the composition of most Comets?

    a) Rock, Ice, Salt, Carbon b) Rock, Ice, Magma, Frozen Gases


    c) Ice, Dust, Rock, Frozen Gases d) Ice, Dust, Rock, Soil
    15. What causes Meteoroids to burst into flames upon entering the Earth's Atmosphere?

    a) They are made out of flammable materials b) They cannot handle the pressure of Earth
    c) They do not burst into flames, they only reflect the d) Friction from the Earths atmosphere
    Sun's light

    16. Where is the Oort Cloud?

    a) Between the Sun and Mercury b) After Neptune


    c) Between the Earth and the Moon d) Between Earth and Mars

    17. The tail of a comet usually faces

    a) toward the sun b) toward the Earth


    c) away from the Sun d) away from the Earth

    18. Meteors are incorrectly called what?

    a) Falling stars b) Shooting stars


    c) Fireballs d) All of the above

    19.
    A meteoroid can be a piece of what?

    a) The Moon or Mars b) An asteroid


    c) A comet d) All of the above

    20. One similarity between asteroids, comets and meteoroids is that they all:

    a) are made of rock b) come from the Asteroid Belt


    c) come from the Oort Cloud d) orbit the sun

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