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Spell Bee Word: Asteroid

Asteroid (noun): a small rocky object that travels around the Sun, mostly between Mars and Jupiter.


What does asteroid mean?

Word: Asteroid

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Asteroid means a small rocky object that travels around the Sun, mostly between Mars and Jupiter.

Synonyms: minor planet, planetoid

How do you spell asteroid?

Syllables: as - ter - oid

Tricky part: The ending is oid, o before i. Students turn it round and write asteriod.

Watch out for: asteriod, asteroyd

Memory tip: The ending oid means like or shaped like, the same oid as in android, and the o comes first.

Asteroid in a sentence

Example 1: Scientists track every large asteroid that comes close to the Earth.

Example 2: Most scientists think an asteroid striking the Earth helped wipe out the dinosaurs.

Example 3: The space probe took photographs of the asteroid's rocky surface.

Fun Fact

In 2022 NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into a small asteroid called Dimorphos on purpose, and the impact shortened its orbit.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Scientists watched the astoroid pass safely between the Earth and the Moon.

a) Moon
b) astoroid
c) safely
d) Scientists

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b) astoroid. Aster, the star part, has an e before the r.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rotsiade

a) roasted
b) asteroid
c) steroid
d) editors

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b) asteroid. Every letter must be used: steroid and editors leave the a over, and roasted leaves the i.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) satelite
b) asteroid
c) metior
d) galaxie

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b) asteroid. Meteor ends in eor, galaxy ends in y, and satellite has two l's.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is an asteroid different from a comet?

a) it is a small kind of star
b) it is a ball of burning gas
c) it travels round the Earth, not the Sun
d) it is rocky and has no glowing tail

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d) it is rocky and has no glowing tail

2. Which is the largest object in the asteroid belt?

a) Ceres
b) Europa
c) Titan
d) Pluto

Show answer

a) Ceres

Associated Words

Words that start with ast: astute, astronomer, astrophysicist, astonishment, astound, astronomy

More words from this list

collector, diligent, filament, inflation, nobility, radiologist, taut, zoology

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