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?
Compare your explanation with the grown-up answer guide after you have tried.