Ch. 4 Solar System Test

What is a Star?

• a large celestial body that is composed of gas and emits light

• a large ball of fire

A large body made of gas or rock that orbits around a star.

• planet
• moon
• star
• super nova

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

A rocky body that orbits around a planet.

• moon
• star
• axis
• Sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Which of the following is an accurate model of how the Sun, Earth, and Moon move?

• Sun and moon orbit Earth
• Earth and moon orbit Sun
• Earth orbit's the Sun and the moon orbits Earth
• Earth and sun orbit moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

The moon is a natural  ______ of Earth.

• comet
• axis
• satellite
• space probe

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The Sun, the eight planets and their moons, and all the objects that move around it.

• astronomy
• atmosphere
• solar system

The oval shaped path the planets take around the Sun.

• planets
• ellipse
• Earth

The scientific study of objects and events in space.

• astronomy
• asteroid
• ellipse

The path of an object as it travels around a larger object.

• orbit
• ellipse
• astronomy

A medium-sized star that is the center of our solar system.

• Earth
• orbit
• Sun