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Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
A(n)                 is a small, solid rock traveling through the atmosphere.
  1. meteor
  2. comet
  3. star
  4. asteroid
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Balls of ice, dust, rocks, and gases form these.
  1. asteroids
  2. meteors
  3. meteorites
  4. comets
Grade 5 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 that is the beginning or ending of a star
  3. a piece of a meteor that lands on Earth after passing through the atmosphere
  4. a group of stars that appear to make a pattern
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
           Asteroid            is a small, rocky object that orbits the Sun.
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
A small body, either man-made or natural, revolving around a larger body is called a                .
  1. satellite
  2. star
  3. comet
  4. planet
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Which is a small piece of rock and metal that travels in space around the Sun?
  1. Nebulae
  2. Meteorite
  3. Meteoroid
  4. Planet
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
A frozen chunk of ice and dust with an elliptical orbit around the Sun is called a(n)                .
  1. comet
  2. meteoroid
  3. asteroid
  4. moon
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
What is between the inner and outer planets?
  1. asteroid belt
  2. meteorites
  3. nothing but space
  4. stars
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Pluto was once called a planet. In 2006 it was reclassified with other nearly round bodies whose objects cross the orbits of other bodies. What term describes Pluto?
  1. meteor
  2. dwarf planet
  3. asteroid
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Asteroids are icy objects that revolve around Earth.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
A crater is a hole on the surface of a moon or planet made by a meteorite hitting its surface.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
What is a meteoroid?
  1. large balls of ice, rock, and gas
  2. small chunks rock in space
  3. frozen balls of ice, gas, and rock
  4. big chunks of rock, metal, and ice
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Planets are classified as either inner planets or outer planets. What is found between the inner planets and the outer planets?
  1. asteroids
  2. moons
  3. comets
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Which is a large rock that revolves around the Sun?
  1. asteroid
  2. meteor
  3. meteorite
  4. meteoroid
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Pluto is a dwarf planet.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
When meteoroids land on Earth, their name changes to                .
  1. satellites
  2. meteorites
  3. comets
  4. meteors
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
What is the glowing ball of gases and dust that form around a comet called?
  1. coma
  2. comment
  3. energy
  4. ball of gas
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Name a mostly spherical object that orbits past Neptune and has other objects orbiting in its path, a type of dwarf planet?
  1. Pluto
  2. Meteorite
  3. Plutoid
  4. Mars
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
A comet has an orbit.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Which is a major reason why was Pluto down graded to a dwarf planet?
  1. It is too small.
  2. It is too far away.
  3. It did not clear the region around its orbit.
  4. It does not have gravity.
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