Earth and Space

What are asteroids?

• Mixtures of ices and dust and have highly elliptical orbits

• Rocky bodies that orbit the sun in nearly circular orbits but are too small to be classified as planets

• A community of planets, moons, and stars that all live together

• Meteors that pass though the atmosphere and impact Earth's surface

What is an axis?

• Meteors that pass through the atmosphere and impact Earth's surface

• Appears when a particle or chunk of metallic or stony matter and enters Earth's atmosphere from outer space

• A spinning motion (turning over and over again)

• An imaginary line that goes through the poles (North and South Pole) on which a planet rotates

What is a comet?

• Mixtures of ices and dust and have highly elliptical orbits

• Rocky bodies that orbit the sun in nearly circular orbits but are too small to be classified as planets

• Meteors that pass through the atmosphere and impact Earth's surface

• A pattern of visible stars all linked together to look like characters, animals, or other objects

What are constellations?

• A community of planets, moons, and stars that all live together

• A pattern of visible stars all linked together to look like characters, animals, or other objects

• Meteors that pass through the atmosphere and impact Earth's surface

• The movement in a curbed path of an object, or spacecraft, around a star, planet, or moon.

What is a meteor?

• Mixtures of ices and dust and have highly elliptical orbits

• Meteors that pass through the atmosphere and impact Earth's surface

• Appears when a particle or chunk of metallic or stony matter and enters Earth's atmosphere from outer space

• The movement in a curved path of an object, or spacecraft, around a star, planet, or moon.

What are meteorites?

• Mixtures of ices and dust and have highly elliptical orbits

• Rocky bodies that orbit the sun in nearly circular orbits but are too small to be classified as planets

• Meteors that pass through the atmosphere and impact Earth's surface

• Appears when a particle or chunk of metallic or stony matter and enters Earth's atmosphere from outer space

Define orbit

• The movement in a curved path of an object, or spacecraft, around a star, planet, or moon.

• An imaginary line that goes through the poles (North and South Pole) on which a planet rotates

• When a planet moves around another planet, or object, in a circular motion

• A spinning motion (turning over and over again)

Define revolution

• A spinning motion (turning over and over again)

• An imaginary line that goes through the poles (North and South Pole) on which a planet rotates

• The movement in a curved path of an object, or spacecraft, around a star, planet, or moon.

• When a planet moves around another planet, or object, in a circular motion

Define rotation

• The movement in a curved path of an object, or spacecraft, around a star, planet, or moon.

• A spinning motion (turning over and over again)

• A community of planets, moons, and stars that all live together

• Meteors that pass through the atmosphere and impact Earth's surface

What is the solar system?

• Meteors that pass through the atmosphere and impact Earth's surface

• When a planet moves around another planet, or object, in a circular motion

• A spinning motion (turning over and over again)

• A community of planets, moons, and stars that all live together