Space Vocabulary

An _____________________________ studies the stars in the sky.

• astronaut
• astronomer
• astro boy
• asteroid

Asteroids might ______________ into each other breaking off bits of rock, creating a meteoroid.

• break
• collide
• disintegrate
• orbit

All planets in our Solar System _________________ the sun.

• orbit
• expand
• crater
• revolve

The Milky Way is the _______________ where we live.

• universe
• planet
• galaxy
• star

__________________ keeps us from floating out into space.

• Earth
• The sun
• Magnets
• Gravity

An _____________________ travels into space in a spacecraft.

• astroboy
• astronomer
• astronaut
• asteroid

We can see the stars closer if we look through a ________________.

• telegraph
• television
• telephone
• telescope

We have sent space crafts to many planets in our solar system but the only ____________ space craft was sent to the moon or the International Space Station.

• manned
• peopled

What shape is this?

• cylindrical
• circular
• elliptical
• rectangular

There are many galaxies in our _______________, but we have yet to find other life forms.

• galaxy
• solar system
• universe
• comet