Solar System Vocabulary Quiz 1

The sun-planets and all the other objects that orbit it.

• Milky way

• Planets

• Galaxy

• Solar system

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Object made of ice, gas and dust that orbits the sun.

• Comet

• Asteroid

• Nebula

• Star

Large, spherical body in space that orbits a star and does not produce light of its own.

• Sun

• Moon

• Planet

• Meteor

The galaxy in which the Earth's solar system is located.

• Outer planet

• Nebula

• Red giant

• Milky way

The theory that explains how the universe was formed

• Expansion theory

• Multi-verse Theory

• Big Bang theory

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Mixture of gases that surround Earth, other planets, moons or stars

• Biosphere

• Atmosphere

• Galaxy

• Hydrosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Space and the total sum of all matter and energy.

• Universe

• Galaxy

• Solar System

• Earth

Any of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune whose orbits lie beyond the asteroid belt

• Inner planet

• Outer planet

• Galaxy

• Universe

The path one object takes when moving around another object in space.

• Revolution

• Rotate

• Orbit

• Speed

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses.

• Gravity

• Inertia

• Force

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4