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Grade 9 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
How are comets formed?
  1. They were formed when the solar system was formed.
  2. The planets' gravity pull them in and they start orbiting the sun.
  3. They are smaller portions of meteorites.
  4. They are smaller portions of asteroids.
Grade 8 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
This is a "dirty snowball" made of dust and ice.
  1. comet
  2. meteor
  3. asteroid
  4. meteorite
College Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Imagine a new object is discovered in the solar system. It is orbiting the Sun at a distance of 2.8 AU. The object is known to be of sufficient mass to be spherical in shape. Would this object be classified as a planet or a dwarf planet?
  1. Planet, it meets all three criteria necessary to be classified as a planet
  2. Planet, any object that is spherical and is in orbit around the Sun is a planet.
  3. Dwarf Planet, it meets the first two criteria for a planet, but it orbits in the asteroid belt, so it does not meet the third criteria.
  4. Dwarf Planet, it meets the first two criteria for a planet, but it orbits in the Kuiper Belt, so it does not meet the third criteria.
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Grade 10 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
What is the difference between meteor and meteorite?
  1. A meteor is moving through Earth's atmosphere and the meteorite actually lands on Earth.
  2. Meteors are made up of carbon, while meteorites are made of ice
  3. A meteorite is moving through the Earth's atmosphere and the meteor actually lands on Earth.
  4. They are just the same.
Grade 3 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Grade 6 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Grade 6 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Grade 8 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Grade 6 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Which of these is a dwarf planet?
  1. Earth
  2. Uranus
  3. Pluto
  4. Neptune
Grade 10 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
The biggest asteroid known is what?
  1. Ceres
  2. Eros
  3. Icarus
  4. Vesta
Grade 7 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Match the following terms with their respective definitions.
Meteor Asteroid Meteoroid Meteorite Comet
Also known as shooting stars because they burn up in the atmosphere
A space rock that lands on the surface of the each in which we could pick up
Also known as dirty snowballs, composed of gas, ice, rock and sometimes have a tail
A space rock that is smaller than a pebble and found in space
A space rock that is larger than a pebble and found in space.
Grade 8 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Grade 4 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Grade 3 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Pluto is a planet.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 7 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
What is a meteorite?
  1. a bright streak of light that passes through Earth's atmosphere
  2. large clouds of gas and dust in space
  3. an object from which no light can escape
  4. a piece of a meteoroid that lands on Earth after passing through the atmosphere
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
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