Solar System Vocabulary

The sun along with all of the planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and other frozen worlds

• solar system

• galaxy

• satellite

• asteroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Galaxy that our solar system is located in

• Andromeda Galaxy

• Milky Way Galaxy

• Mars Galaxy

Our daytime star

• sun

• galaxy

• satellite

• asteroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Planets in order from the sun

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus

• Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus

• Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Rocky planets

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

• Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Gaseous planets

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

• Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Outer planets

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

• Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Inner planets

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

• Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

rocky and irregularly shaped bodies that orbit the sun, but are too small to be planets

• asteroid

• comet

• meteoroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

leftover debris from the formation of the solar system that has tails of gas and dust

• asteroid

• comet

• meteoroid