Science Vocabulary Unit 1

A tool that makes distant objects look larger in the night sky

• space probe

• star

• meteor

• telescope

A huge ball of hot 

gases

• sun

• star

• moon

• space probe

An object in space that orbits another object in space

• satellite

• astronaut

• moon landing

• space probe

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

An unmanned spacecraft that travels through space to collect information and send it back to Earth.

• rocketship

• drone

• space probe

• rocket

The star at the center of our solar system

• star

• sun

• moon

• constellation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A satellite of a planet

• moon

• constellation

• moon phases

• satellite

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The changing views of the moon

• constellation

• stars

• moon phases

• lunar landing

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A group of stars that form a pattern

• constellation

• stars

• moon

• moon phases

A large, solid object that travels around the sun or another star

• moon

• constellation

• planet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A spinning movement

• rotation

• moon phases

• star

• space probe

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6