Solar System Vocabulary

A device shaped like a long tube that you look through in order to see things that are far away.

• Hubble

• Telescope

• Microscope

• Magnifying Glass

any one of the objects in space that are made of burning gas and that look like points of light in the night sky

• Moon

• Planet

• Sun

• Star

a large, round object in space (such as the Earth) that travels around a star (such as the sun)

• Moon

• Earth

• Planet

• Sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

the large round object that circles the Earth and that shines at night by reflecting light from the sun

• Sun

• Asteroid

• Planet

• Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

any one of thousands of small planets that circle around the sun

• Asteroid

• Planet

• Moon

• Comet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

an object in outer space that develops a long, bright tail when it passes near the sun

• Planet

• Comet

• Sun

• Asteroid

the natural force that tends to cause physical things to move towards each other : the force that causes things to fall towards the Earth

• Gravity

• Composition

• Orbit

• the Sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

the curved path that something (such as a moon or satellite) follows as it goes around something else (such as a planet)

• longitude

• Revole

• Orbit

• Rotate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

to move around (something) in a path that is similar to a circle

• Orbit

• Longitude

• Rotate

• Revolve

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

to turn in a circle

• Rotate

• Orbit

• Revolve

• Latitude