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The answer sheet for the worksheet What is a meteorite?. Each answer comes with the reason, so it can be used to mark or to go over the questions with the class.

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KS2 · Ages 7 to 11 (Years 3 to 6)Answer sheet for teachers

Answers: What is a meteorite?

  1. D: Rock or metalAsteroids are rocky or metal objects that travel around the Sun.
  2. A: It arrives without anyone flying a missionA meteorite brings a piece of an asteroid, the Moon or Mars to us without a spacecraft.
  3. D: Meteors have nothing to do with starsA meteor is glowing air around a space rock, not a star.
  4. A: Earth keeps recycling its own rocksVolcanoes, mountain building and erosion keep recycling Earth's rocks, so the oldest are gone.
  5. False: the right answer is About 4,500 million yearsMost meteorites are about 4,500 million years old, from the start of the Solar System.
  6. False: the right answer is A meteoroidA small lump of rock or metal travelling through space is a meteoroid.
  7. Meteoroid, meteor, meteorite (accept any answer with the same meaning)It is a meteoroid in space, makes a meteor in the sky and is a meteorite once it lands.
  8. Huge impacts knocked them off Mars (accept any answer with the same meaning)Huge impacts knocked pieces off Mars, which travelled through space and landed here.

Task

Answers will vary. The task comes from the lesson: Make three cards that say meteoroid, meteor and meteorite. On the back of each, draw where the rock is: out in space, glowing in the sky, or resting on the ground. Shuffle them and ask someone at home to put them in the right order, then explain why.

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