A space rock’s three-name comic
20 minutes · Paper · Pencil
Your investigation
- Divide a sheet into three panels: in space, entering air, and on the ground.
- Draw a small rock in the first, a bright streak in the second, and a surviving fragment in the third.
- Label meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite in the appropriate panels.
- Add an alternate ending where no solid fragment reaches the ground.
Think, draw, explain
Which name belongs to the light streak?
Does every meteor leave a meteorite?
Grown-up guide & possible answers
- The light phenomenon is a meteor. The object in space is a meteoroid; a surviving piece is a meteorite.
- No. Much incoming small material is destroyed or dispersed before reaching the ground as a recognizable fragment.