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Read the text and fill in the gaps with the word which best fits each space. There are two extra words you do not need to choose. We hear about meteors and meteorites (1) ______ a lot, but do you know the difference between the two? Well, a meteor is actually a rock from space that has entered the Earth’s atmosphere, but which burns up before it (2) _____ the surface of the Earth. It burns up because it reaches temperatures of up to 1,650 degrees Celsius (3) _____ it enters the atmosphere. If the rock, or at (4) _____ a bit of it, actually survives this temperature and hits the surface of the Earth, it is called a meteorite. One of the biggest meteorites (5) ______ is probably the one that hit Earth 66 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs. The hole that a meteorite leaves on the surface of the Earth is called a crater. The largest known meteorite crater is called Vredefort Dome in South Africa. It is 300 kilometres wide.