Comets Asteroids Meteors

Activity 1.
1 “Cross My Path”
Below are texts regarding the concepts of asteroid, meteor and comets. What you are going to
do is supply the missing work to complete the sentence. Use the words from the box in filling in
the missing words.
Remember These:
Now let’s sum up all the concepts!
● An asteroid is a small solar system object composed mostly of rock. Many of these objects
orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Their size can range anywhere from 10 meters in
diameter to less than 1,000 kilometers.
● A Comet is a small solar system object consisting of ice and other compounds. A comet will
form a coma and sometimes a visible tail whenever it orbits close to the Sun.
● Coma is the cloud that forms around a comet's nucleus. This cloud is made by solar wind
striking the surface of the nucleus, causing a mixture of gas and dust to form around it.
● The dust tail is a type of comet tail formed when the solar wind separates dust from the coma,
pushing it outward away from the Sun in a slightly curved path.
● The gas ion tail is a type of comet tail formed when the solar wind separates gases from the
coma, pushing them outward away from the Sun in a straight path.
● The inner solar system is the path of the solar system between the Sun and the orbit of Jupiter
● A meteor is a flash of light that we see in the night sky caused by the friction of a meteoroid
passing through the atmosphere.
● Meteor showers are many and sustained flashes of light that are seen in the night sky as a
result of the Earth passing through the former path of a comet. The debris released by the comet
causes the meteor shower.
● Meteorites are any part of a meteoroid that survives its fall through the atmosphere and lands
on the Earth.
● The meteoroids are interplanetary chunks of matter that is smaller than a kilometer in
diameter and most frequently measured in millimeters.
Assessment
Good job! You have surpassed all the challenges given. Now, let’s test you’re your learnings by
answering the following questions. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. What happens when the comets go near the sun?
A. the tails are developed B. become smaller C. disappear D. burned
2. Which of the following is not true about meteors?
A. Some portions are burned up in the atmosphere
B. They do not reach the ground of the Earth
C. The scientists can collect so many of it
D. They come in group
3. What is the main difference between asteroids and meteoroids?

A. Asteroids are pieces of comets, whereas meteoroids are pieces of space debris
B. Asteroids are only found in the “belt” between Mars and Jupiter
C. Meteoroids are generally bigger than asteroids
D. Asteroids are generally bigger than meteoroids
4. How do we know if a meteor has made contact with Earth’s atmosphere?

A. It burns up and becomes a “shooting star”
B. A species like the dinosaurs die out
C. We find space rock on the ground
D. Humans on Earth die
5. What is found in the middle of Mars and Jupiter’s orbit?
A. Asteroid belt B. Comets C. Meteors D. Planets
6. What part of the comet forms around a comet's nucleus? This cloud is made by solar wind
striking the surface of the nucleus, causing a mixture of gas and dust to form around it.
A. Coma B. Fire C. Light D. Ring
7. What type asteroids that is rich in metallic substances such as nickel- iron, giving them
reddish in color?
A. C – type B. M – type C. N – type D. S – type
8. Which among the choices is one similarity between asteroids, comets, and meteors?
A. come from the Asteroid belt
B. come from the Oort cloud
C. made of rock
D. orbit the Sun
9. Which best describes the tail of a comet?

A. trails behind the comet, pointing away from the Sun as the comet approaches it, and toward
the Sun as the comet moves out of the inner Solar System.
B. is gas and dust expelled from the comet’s nucleus and blown outward by radiation pressure
and the solar wind.
C. is gas and dust pulled off the comet by the Sun’s gravity.
D. always points away from the Sun.
10. Which of these objects that orbit the sun are nicknamed, “dirty snowballs”?
A. asteroids B. comets C. meteors D. meteoroids
11.What are meteors made of?

A. chunks of rocks and minerals B. butterfly wings C. gas and dust D. fish
12.Which of the following statement is false?

A. The largest asteroid in the asteroid belt is Ceres.
B. Ceres and Vesta are both in the asteroid belt.
C. Asteroid belt contains millions of asteroids.
D. Pluto is in the asteroid belt.
13. Where does Asteroids “hang out” in our solar system?

A. Asteroid belt B. Kuiper belt C. Oort cloud D. Planetary rings
14. Which space object is larger? A. asteroid B. meteor C. meteorite D. meteoroid

15. When does a meteor shower occurs?
A. when the tail of comet enters the Earth atmosphere
B. when a meteoroid enters the Earth atmosphere
C. when there are fireworks in the sky
D. when asteroid falls on earth

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Activity 1.

3. What is the main difference between asteroids and meteoroids?

4. How do we know if a meteor has made contact with Earth’s atmosphere?

9. Which best describes the tail of a comet?

11.What are meteors made of?

12.Which of the following statement is false?

13. Where does Asteroids “hang out” in our solar system?

14. Which space object is larger? A. asteroid B. meteor C. meteorite D. meteoroid

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