Physics Weekly Worksheet

G7 S2 BPK – Solar System (Part 3)

Name: ________________________ Date: _____________________

1. Objects made of ice, gas and dust and orbit our sun are called:

a. Asteroids
b. Comets.
c. Meteroids
d. Meteors
2. Asteroids "hang out" in our solar system in a place called:
a. The Kupier Belt
b. The Oort Cloud
c. The Planetary Rings
d. The Asteroid Belt.
3. 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.
4. Huge chunks of rock and metal (some measuring miles wide) and are believed to be left-over pieces of
planets and moons are called:
a. Comets
b. Meteors
c. Asteroids.
d. Meteroids
5. These objects that orbit the sun are nicknamed, "dirty snowballs."
a. Comets.
b. Asteroids
c. Meteors
d. Meteroids
6. When a meteoroid STRIKES the surface of the earth scientists refer to them as:

a. Asteroids
b. Comets
c. Meteors
d. Meteorites .
7. When objects strike the surface of a planet or moon, they leave a deep impression on the surface called a:
a. Pothole
b. Crater.
c. Canyon
d. Plateau
8. What do comets orbit
a. The Stars
b. The Planets
c. The Sun.
9. When a meteor hits Earth, what is it called?
a. Meteorite.
b. Meteoroid
c. Meteor

10. What are meteors made of?

a. chunks of rocks and minerals.
b. fish
c. butterfly wings
d. chewing gum
11. What is a meteor called when it's in space?
a. Meteroid.
b. Meteor
c. Meteorite
12. Has a meteor ever gone close to Earth?
a. Yes.
b. No
c. 27 years ago
d. 1,000,000 years ago
13. True or False: Meteors are bigger than Jupiter!
a. True
b. False.
c. They were 90 years ago
14. Where do meteoroids NOT occur?

a. Throughout the solar system

b. In the asteroid belt
c. On Earth.
15. The tails of a comet are called...

a. Gas tail and dust tail.

b. Hydrogen tail and gas tail
c. Dust tail hydrogen tail
d. Coma and gas tail
16. What causes meteors to burn up in our atmosphere?
a. Heat from the Sun
b. Heat from Earth's atmosphere
c. They are already so hot that our atmosphere can't handle it
d. Friction from the Earth's atmosphere.
17. Piece of rock that burns up as it passes through the earth's atmosphere.
a. Asteroid
b. Meteoroid
 c. Comet
d. Meteor.
18. Which space object is larger?
a. Asteroid.
b. Meteor
c. Meteorite
19. where are asteroids found?
a. between earth and venus
b. between Jupiter and Saturn
c. between Saturn and Uranus
d. between Mars and Jupiter.
20. Between a meteroid and a comet, whose orbit (ellipse) moves the furthest away from the sun and
sometimes past Neptune?
a. Meteoroids
b. Comets.
21. True or False....The same meteoroid can have a different name depending where its location is...whether it is
in space, the Earth's atmosphere or hitting the ground.
a. True.
b. False
22. One reason why we do not see too many craters caused by meteorites hitting our Earth is because....
a. Only tiny meteorites hit our Earth causing little, tiny craters that we can't always see.
b. Meteorites do not hit our Earth.
c. Most of them fall into our ocean since 80% of our Earth is made up of water.