Earth, Moon, and Sun Vocabulary

What is a telescope?

• a long tube with a mirror that gathers light
• a hole that collects sound
• a machine that puts off light

Designed to travel through space or to launch a space craft? 

• satellite
• telescope
• rocket
• orbit

An artificial object that has been intentionally placed into orbit? 

• telescope
• rocket
• space shuttle
• satellite

A rocket-launched spacecraft, able to land like an unpowered aircraft, used to make repeated journeys between the earth and earth orbit?

• orbit
• space shuttle
• satellite
• dwarf planet

A celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such.

• tide
• satellite
• dwarf planet
• extraterrestrial life

The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution? 

• planet
• rotation
• orbit
• tide

The movement of one object around a center or another object

• rotation
• revolution

The movement or path of the earth or a heavenly body turning on its axis.

• rotation
• revolution

When the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.

• umbra
• solstice
• penumbra
• orbit

The time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length (about September 22 and March 20).

• solstice
• equinox
• umbra
• rotation