Earth and Space Vocabulary

natural satellite that orbits a planet

• sun

• earth

• moon

• stars

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

planet in our solar system that has life on it, the third planet from the sun

• sun

• earth

• moon

• stars

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

star at the center of our solar system that supplies energy, heat and light to Earth, its gravity keeps the system in orbit

• sun

• earth

• moon

• stars

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

air that surrounds the Earth; made of a mixture of gases

• gravity

• orbit

• axis

• atmosphere

one orbit of a planet or satellite around another object in space

• revolution

• rotation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

times of the year caused by the revolution of the Earth around the sun and the tilt of the Earth on its axis

• revolution

• seasons

• rotation

• orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

the turning of a planet or moon on its imaginary axis

• revolution

• rotation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

the path around an object, like the path a planet follows around the sun

• axis

• gravity

• orbit

• atmosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

the force that causes attraction between objects that has mass

• axis

• gravity

• orbit

• seasons

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

the imaginary line on which a planet is tilted and rotates

• axis

• gravity

• orbit

• seasons