Space_Vocabulary_DISD_G2

A ____ is a large ball of rock or gas that moves around the sun.

• Sun

• Planet

• Solar system

• Moon

Which of these are parts of the solar system

• the sun

• the planets

• the sky

• the planets' moons

What is the path a planet takes as it moves around the sun?

• axis

• spin

• rotate

• orbit

What is a star?

• A huge ball of hot gases.

• A light in the sky.

• A twinkle in the sky

A ____ is a group of stars that forms a pattern.

• orion

• star

• constellation

• moon

To make one full turn or ______, it takes Earth 24 hours.

• rotate

• spin

• orbit

• axis

The _____ are the shapes of the moon we see as it moves.

• rotation

• phases

• light

• spinning