1. What are meteor showers? Dying stars. Rocks from space found on Earth. An eruption of rocks and dust in the sky. Glowing debris in the Earth's atmosphere.

2. What causes a meteor shower? All of these Solar debris Comets The orbit of the Earth

3. Meteor showers occur only on Earth. True False

4. What is the name of the most visible meteor shower which occurs every August? Perseids Eta Aquarids Leonids Geminids

5. What are meteor showers named after? The month which they occur in. Roman gods. The individual who discovered it. The constellation which they appear to be falling from.

6. What do we call the point in the sky where all of the meteors seem to radiate from? zenith radiant comet origin

7. What is it called when a meteor shower has a frequency of at least one meteor per second? meteor storm The end of the world. meteor shower meteor outburst

8. What is the common name for random meteor storms (not annual meteor showers)? meteor outburst surprise meteor shower meteor flash heavy meteor storm

9. What do you call the brief glow behind a meteor? wake flash afterglow trail

10. What is the name of the metallic emission glow in the path of bright fireballs? wake flash trail afterglow

11. Which comet left the debris which we call the Perseids? Swift-Tuttle Halley Temple-Tuttle Encke

12. Which comet left the debris which we call the Leonids? Encke Halley Swift-Tuttle Temple-Tuttle

13. What do you call a relatively small (sand-to boulder-sized) fragment of debris in the Solar System? comet meteor meteoroid meteorite

14. What do we call a piece of debris from the Solar System when it has reached the ground? interplanetary dust meteoroid meteor meteorite

15. What do we call the visible path of a meteoroid when it enters the Earth's atmosphere? meteorite meteor meteoroid gas tail