--- title: Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Space description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 16 «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» of the space course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/) / Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars # Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars The 15 questions of lesson 16 «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» of the space course of Mova's primary school with their options, 80 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/t1/) — My mate made a wish on a shooting star and said a star died for it. what's actually going on — wrong ✗ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/t2/) — Why do meteors burn up so high, far above the aeroplanes? — right ✓ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/t3/) — A lump of rock is glowing across the sky. Ten seconds later a piece lands in a field. Name the two stages. — right ✓ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/t4/) — In a film a shooting star is shown as a big rock crashing into a town every night. What is wrong? — right ✓ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/t5/) — If you face the wrong way on Perseid night, will you miss all the meteors? — wrong ✗ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/t6/) — ugh, my brother says all meteor showers come from comets. right or not — right ✓ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/t7/) — You hear a boom and see a meteor brighter than Venus. What did you see? — right ✓ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/t8/) — A meteorite turns out to be just like the rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts. Where did it most likely come from? — wrong ✗ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/t9/) — Why was the Winchcombe meteorite so valuable to scientists? — wrong ✗ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/t10/) — Which is true? — wrong ✗ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/t11/) — crap, the dinosaurs died from a meteorite? all of 'em? — wrong ✗ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/e1/) — Identify the designation applied to a body of extraterrestrial rock which has reached the surface of the Earth. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/e2/) — Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the nature of so-called shooting stars. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/e3/) — State the term employed to denote the point in the sky from which the meteors of a shower appear to originate. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/e4/) — Ascertain the parent body of the meteor shower designated the Geminids. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [15. Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets/) - next →: [17. Stars: what they are](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/17-stars-what-they-are/) - ↑ back to [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/)