Solar System Vocabulary Review

Asteroids

• grouping of stars

• large rocky objects or small planets that orbit the sun in the Asteroid belt

• doughnut shaped area of asteroids that orbit the sun

• the time it takes the Earth to rotate on its axis

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Orbit

• the path one object takes around another

• gaseous area surrounding a planet or other body

• grouping of stars

• amount of time it takes for the earth to spin on its axis

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Atmosphere

• path one object takes around another

• precipatation, evaporation, condensation, runoff

• grouping of stars

• gaseous area surrounding a planet or other body

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Constellation

• gaseous area surrounding a planet

• grouping of stars when have been named by ancient astronomers

• connecting points on a graph

• groups of clouds

Meteorite

• object from space such as a rock that falls to the earth and lands on its surface

• a shooting star

• grouping of stars

• object moving around a star

Star

• practice test that we take for Math and ELA

• grouping of stars named by ancient astronomers

• huge glowing ball of gas in space

• name of a spacecraft that travels in space

Day

• path one object takes around another

• gaseous area surrounding a planet or other body

• amount of time it takes for the Earth to spin once on its axis

• When the sun goes down and the moon goes up

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Astronomer

• person who studies physics

• person who studies plants and animals

• person who studies zodiac signs

• person who studies and researches objects in outer space like planets and stars

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Planet

• a hole caused by an object hitting the surface of a planet or moon

• system of planets and other objects orbiting the sun

• space that contains all the matter and energy in existence

• object moving around a star

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Galaxy

• a group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity

• groups of stars named by ancient astronomers

• an object, like a rock, that falls through earth's atmosphere

• an object that orbits around a star

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