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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 10 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Asteroids are made up of what?
  1. gaseous materials
  2. liquid materials
  3. metallic
  4. rocks
Grade 10 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
The biggest asteroid known is what?
  1. Ceres
  2. Eros
  3. Icarus
  4. Vesta
Grade 10 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
The belt between Mars and Jupiter is called                .
  1. asteroids
  2. comets
  3. meteors
  4. stars
Grade 10 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
These small bodies are also called shooting stars.
  1. asteroids
  2. comets
  3. meteors
  4. interplanetary dust
Grade 10 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
When a meteor hits Earth, it is now called as                    .
  1. asteroid
  2. comets
  3. meteorite
  4. interplanetary dust
Grade 10 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Why is a meteorite different from a comet?
  1. It enters the Earth's atmosphere.
  2. It has a tail of ice and gas.
  3. It has a nucleus mad of rock and snow.
  4. It is found in orbit between Jupiter and Mars.
Grade 10 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
What is the composition of an asteroid?
  1. Ice, dust, rock, frozen gases
  2. Metals and rocky material
  3. Rock, ice, salt, carbon
  4. Rock, ice, magma, frozen gases
Grade 10 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Which part of the comet is on the opposite side of the comet from the Sun?
  1. coma
  2. tail
  3. nucleus
  4. head
Grade 10 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Gravity does not influence the motions of celestial objects at all.
  1. True
  2. False