Solar System Review

All the gases around a planet are called...

• atmosphere

• gravity

• a crater

• a comet

An object that travels around another object in space is called...

• an orbit

• a satellite

• a star

• an orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

A huge ball of glowing gas that gives off light and heat

• crater

• axis

• comet

• star

Bowl-shaped hole formed when a space object hit a planet

• orbit

• satellite

• crater

• comet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Time it takes a planet to rotate once

• year

• a few hours

• day

• 12 hours

Frozen chunk of dust, ice, and gases that revolves around the sun

• crater

• meteor

• axis

• comet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Path a planet takes as it revolves around the sun

• orbit

• axis

• circle

• gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Force that keeps each planet in its path around the sun

• satellite

• gravity

• atmosphere

• orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Imaginary line around a planet

• orbit

• star

• axis

• satellite

Time it takes for a planet to complete one revolution around the sun

• day

• 24 hours

• year

• 1 month

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4