True/False: When we see a Meteor in the night’s sky, we often call them “Falling Rocks”.
False: They are called “Falling Stars” or “Shooting Stars”
True/False: A comet is a hot rock that orbits the sun.
-False: It is an icy snowball that orbits the sun.
True/False: A Meteor enters Earth’s atmosphere & many times burns up.
True
True/False: A comet can only have one tail.
False: a comet can have a dust tail & an ion tail
True/False: An Asteroid is a smaller, rocky object that goes around the Sun
True
True/False: “Orbit” means to spin.
False-It means to go around something in a regular pattern.
True/False: Meteorites are usually all about the same size & color.
False. They are all very different.
True/False: The dust tail forms as the comet gets closer to the Sun & solar radiation pressure blows dust particles behind the comet.
True
True/False: A Meteorite is a space rock that hits the Earth’s surface.
True
True/False: “Planetoid or Minor Planets” are another way to say “asteroid”.
True
True/False: Meteoroids are icy space rocks that orbit the sun & change as they get closer to the Sun.
False: this describes a comet.
True/False: Comets can come from both the Kuiper Belt & the Oort Cloud.
True
True/False: As the comet gets closer to the Sun, the ices melt to become an atmosphere around the comet called a Coma.
True
True/False: A comet can be as small as a city but as big as a planet.
True
True/False: Asteroids are found mostly at the far reaches of our Solar System.
False-they are mostly found in the Main Asteroid Belt
True/False- Meteorites are smaller than asteroids & comets & seem to fall through space as they orbit the Sun.
False-this describes Meteoroids
True/False: there are only about 100 asteroids in the Asteroid Belt.
False-There are millions of smaller asteroids and 4 large ones
True/False: Scientists believe asteroids brought water to Earth.
True
True/False: We study space rocks, like Asteroids, because they are the building blocks of planets & moons, and because they can tell us about the origins of the Solar System.
True
True/False: We call the center of the comet that is a solid piece of rocky materials covered by ices & dust the “singularity”.
False-We call it the Nucleus