Unit 8 Solar System

Objects of rock and metal that are smaller than planets and revolve around the sun.

• Planet

• Comet

• Asteroid

• Meteor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Piece of rock from space that enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns creating a bright streak of light in the sky

• Planet

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Comet

Made mostly of ice and dust that orbits the sun; known as ‘dirty snowball’.

• Comet

• Asteroid

• Planet

• Meteor

Path on object in space follows as it revolves around another object, such as the Earth around the Sun.

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Orbit

• Gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

One orbit of an object in space around another object in space; such as the moon around the Earth.

• Orbit

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Model

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Spinning of a planet, moon, sun or other object around its axis.

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Solar System

• Orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The sun, its planets and all the other objects in orbit around the sun or planets.

• Planets

• Solar System

• Model

• Gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Simplified version of some part of the natural world that helps explain how it functions.

• Model

• Solar System

• Planet

• Astronomical Unit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Large body that travels in orbit around a star that is usually smaller than a star.

• Solar System

• Planet

• Comet

• Asteroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Force of attraction between any two objects.

• Gravity

• Planet

• Orbit

• Satellite

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5