What Is the Difference Between a Meteoroid, Meteor, and Meteorite?

Space rocks are like little travelers on a journey. When they're out in space, we call them meteoroids, just like tiny pebbles floating in the sky. Once one of these space rocks enters Earth's atmosphere and starts burning up, it becomes a meteor, which is like a bright flash across the sky (you might know this as a shooting star). If that same rock survives its journey through the air and actually lands on Earth, we call it a meteorite, the final stop of its space adventure.