Solar System Vocabulary

Hot ball of glowing gases at the center of the solar system

• Earth

• Sun

• Solar System

• Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Satellite that orbits the Earth

• Earth

• Sun

• Solar System

• Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The third planet in the solar system

• Earth

• Sun

• Solar System

• Moon

A system with celestial bodies that revolves around the sun and stars

• Earth

• Sun

• Solar System

• Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The entire half/side of the Moon facing Earth is dark

• Full Moon

• New Moon

• Quarter Moon

• Crescent Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Half of the side of the Moon facing Earth is lit and the other half is dark. The Moon appears as a half circle; there are two quarter-moon phases in the cycle

• Full Moon

• New Moon

• Quarter Moon

• Crescent Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The entire half/side of the Moon facing Earth is lit and the Moon appears as a full circle

• Full Moon

• New Moon

• Quarter Moon

• Crescent Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A small section (less than a quarter moon) of the half/side of the Moon facing Earth is lit

• Full Moon

• New Moon

• Quarter Moon

• Crescent Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The spinning of a planet on its axis and completes one rotation in 24 hours

• Tilt

• Axis

• Revolution

• Rotate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

An imaginary line that runs through a planet

• Tilt

• Axis

• Revolution

• Rotate