Space : Earth, Moon, Stars, Planets & More

A star and all of the objects that travel around it

• Solar System
• Asteroid
• Uranus
• Mercury

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A smaller object such as a moon that travels around a larger object such as a planet. Some examples of these are our sun are planets, moons, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets

• Satellite
• Meteor
• Jupiter
• Mercury

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

All the gasses that surround a planet

• Atmosphere
• Earth
• Inner Planets
• Dwarf Planets

The path a planet takes around the Sun or the path spaceship can take

• Orbit
• Dwarf Planets
• Galaxy
• Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

An oval shaped orbit. The shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun.

• Ellipse
• Meteoroid
• Atmosphere
• Asteroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

This is Earth's moon which formed around the same time as Earth and causes the ocean tides on Earth. There is no wind or water so there is no erosion.

• Luna
• Comet
• Meteoroid
• Uranus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A rocky metallic object that travels around the Sun.

• Asteroid
• Neptune
• Meteoroid
• Meteorite

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A group of stars that form a pattern or shape

• Constellation
• Dwarf Planets
• Atmosphere
• Planet

A ball of ice and rock with a tail of light that moves around the Sun.

• Comet
• Planet
• Luna
• Meteoroid

A very large group of stars and planets surrounded by dust and gas. Earth's is the Milky Way.

• Galaxy
• Planet
• Satellite
• Mars

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2