Solar System Vocabulary

a system of planets and other bodies that orbits a star

• solar system

• galaxy

• universe

• constellations

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What is a natural satellite that revolves around a planet?

• Meteor
• Comet
• Asteroid
• Moon

The path an object makes around another object

• revolution

• rotation

• orbit

• planet

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What is a star?

• a group of stars that form a pattern

• large body of rock, gas and metal

• huge ball of very hot gases

• The objects that orbit in our solar system

What is a large celestial body of rock or gas that orbits the sun?

• asteroid

• planet

• comet

• axis

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A person that travels into space by spacecraft.

• space probe

• telescope

• astronaut

• satellite

Unmanned spacecraft that travels through space to gather information

• space probe`

• telescope

• astronaut

• satellite

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An instrument used to make distant objects look larger and closer

• space probe

• telescope

• astronaut

• satellite

A body that orbits another object (more specifically a planet)

• space probe

• satellite

• astronaut

• telescope

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The imaginary line that goes through the North and South Pole

• axis

• comet

• equator

• orbit