Solar System Vocabulary

Meteoroids

• While in space a meteorite is called this.

• A small rock or rocky grain that strikes Earth's surface.

• Sometimes called a "shooting star"

• Bodies in space made of ice, dust and small gritty particles.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Asteroids

• A small rock or rocky grain that strikes Earth's surface.

• Bodies in space made of ice, dust and small gritty particles.

• An irregularly shaped rocky object in space (like a space potato).

• Sometimes called a "shooting star"

Comets

• While in space a meteorite is called this.

• An irregularly shaped rocky object in space (like a space potato).

• Sometimes called a "shooting star"

• Bodies in space made up of ice, dust and small gritty particles.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Meteorite

• A small rock or rocky grain that strikes Earth's surface.

• Sometimes called a "shooting star"

• Bodies in space made up of ice, dust and small gritty particles.

• An irregularly shaped rocky object in space (like a space potato).

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Meteor

• A small rock or rocky grain that strikes Earth's surface.

• While in space a meteorite is called this.

• Sometimes called a "shooting star"

• Bodies in space made up of ice, dust and small gritty particles.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Orbit

• An imaginary line about which a body rotates.

• The action of rotating around an axis or center.

• The movement of an object in a circular or elliptical course around another or about an axis or center.

• The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Axis

• An imaginary line about which a body rotates.

• The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet or moon.

• The action of rotating around an axis or center.

• The force that attracts a body towards the center of the earth, or towards any other physical body having mass.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Rotation

• An imaginary line about which a body rotates.

• The action of rotating around an axis or center.

• The movement of an object in a circular or elliptical course around another or about an axis or center.

• The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or towards any other physical body having mass.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Revolution

• The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet or moon.

• An imaginary line about which a body rotates.

• The action of rotating around an axis or center.

• The movement of an object in a circular or elliptical course around another or about an axis or center.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Gravity

• The action of rotating around an axis or center.

• The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass.

• The movement of an object in a circular or elliptical course around another or about an axis or center.

• The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet or moon.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4