Solar System Vocabulary

to travel in a closed path around an object such as Earth does as it moves around the sun

• revolve

• orbit

• rotate

• axis

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

the path one body in space takes as it revolves around another body; such as that of Earth as it revolves around the sun

• rotate

• axis

• orbit

• planets

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

the spinning of Earth on its axis

• axis

• planets

• rotate

• eclipse

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

an imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and its North and South poles

• orbit

• sunspot

• axis

• satellite

large, round bodies that revolve around a star

• comets

• planets

• asteroids

• sunspot

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

everything that exists--planets, stars, dust, gases, and energy

• galaxy

• light-year

• satellite

• universe

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

a group of stars, gas, and dust

• universe

• galaxy

• planets

• comets

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

the distance light travels in one Earth year; about 9.5 trillion miles

• rotate

• revolve

• light-year

• magnitude

the passing of one object through the shadow of another

• comets

• eclipse

• sunspot

• satellite

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

chunks of rock that look like giant potatoes in space

• comets

• asteroids

• planets

• satellite

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3