Solar System Vocabulary

an object made of rock, ice, dust, and gas that revolves around the Sun

• Comet

• Asteroid

• Galaxy

• Planet

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an object that is found in the solar system, orbits the Sun, and is much smaller than a planet

• comet

• star

• asteroid

• constellation

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a system of planets and other bodies that orbits a star

• solar system

• galaxy

• universe

• constellations

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a streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth’s atmosphere

• asteroid

• comet

• meteor

• meteoroid

What is a natural satellite that revolves around a planet?

• Meteor
• Comet
• Asteroid
• Moon

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_____________ is the force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses.

• Gravity

• Meteor

• Water

• Atmosphere

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The path that one object in space follows as it revolves around another object in space

• Orbit

• Mass

• Galaxy

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The movement of one object around another

• revolution

• axis

• rotation

• orbit

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What is it called when an object spins on its axis?

• revolution

• rotation

• axis

• orbit

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The imaginary line that goes through the North and South Pole

• axis

• comet

• equator

• orbit