Chap.9 Vocab for Science

A body that orbits space

• Satellite

• Star

• Comet

• Constellation

A giant ball of gas or plasma

• Planet

• Sun

• Star

• Meteor

an object that orbits the sun.

• sun

• planet

• comet

• Eclipse

A streak of light when small pieces of ice or rocks enter the Earth's atmosphere

• Comet

• Meteorite

• Star

• Meteor

a cold mixture of dust and ice that develops a long trail of light

• Comet

• Meteor

• Meteorite

• Planet

A pattern of stars that represents something

• Geocentric

• Constellation

• Sun

• Ellipse

Earth-centered model

• Heliocentric

• Rotation

• Geocentric

• Orbit

Sun-centered model

• Geocentric

• Revolution

• Heliocentric

An oval-shaped orbit

• Ellipse

• Eclipse

• Moon

• Rock