Solar System Vocabulary Quiz

The Star that the Earth moves around and that gives the Earth heat and light

• Sun

• Star

• Revolve

• Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A fixed bright object in the sky which is large and made up of gases

• Sun

• Star

• Moon

• Revolve

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

• Orbit

• Rotate

• Revolve

• Sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The Earth's natural satellite

• Sun

• Earth

• Moon

• Star

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A repeating path that one object in space takes around another

• Rotate

• Revolve

• Orbit

• Planets

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

A complete turn around a central point

• Rotate

• Orbit

• Revolve

• Star

Consist of the Sun and everything bound to it by gravity such as planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids and comets

• Sun

• Orbit

• Solar System

• Inner planets

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Large natural objects that orbit, or travel around, stars.

• Solar System

• Rotate

• Orbit

• Planets

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

• Inner Planets

• Outer Planets

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

• Inner Planets

• Outer Planets