Question 1:
Add the characteristics listed below to the appropriate location on the Venn diagram.
The difference between comets
,
meteors and asteroids
Characteristics
1. Progress across the
sky very slowly
2. Remnants of the
formation of the solar
system
3. Reflect sunlight
4. Rocky composition
5. Orbit the Sun in
highly elliptical orbits
6. Measure a few kms
in diameter
7. Most found in the
asteroid belt
8. Most are less than a
km in diameter
9. Most have slightly
elliptical orbits
10. Most are less than
100 m in diameter
11. Also known as
shooting stars
12. Most burn up as they
enter Earth’s
atmosphere
13. Streak across the sky
very fast
14. Most are fragments of
large asteroids
15. Icy objects
16. Meteor showers are
caused by the Earth
passing through the
debris path of a
comet
17. Tail always points
away from the Sun
Comets
Meteors
Asteroids
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