The Solar System Vocabulary Flashcard

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What is a solar system?

Back

A star and all of the planets orbiting around it.

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What is the Moon?

Back

A natural satellite.

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What does it mean to revolve?

Back

To move around something.

Front

List the planets in order from the Sun.

Back

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

Front

What is a limitation of models of the solar system?

Back

They cannot show the actual sizes of the sun and planets.

Front

What is a planet?

Back

A large celestial body that orbits a star.

Front

What is an asteroid?

Back

A small rocky body that orbits the sun.

Front

What is a comet?

Back

A small icy body that, when passing close to the sun, heats up and begins to release gases.

Front

What does it mean to rotate?

Back

To spin around an axis.

Front

What is the largest planet in our solar system?

Back

Jupiter.