Solar system vocab

What is a period of revolution?

• time it takes an object to complete one rotation

• time it takes an object to travel once around the Sun

• a day when Earth's axis is not leaning toward or away from the sun

• a line on which an object rotates

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What does a light-year measure?

• time it takes an object to travel once around the sun

• time it takes an object to complete one rotation

• an imaginary line that divides the Earth into northern and southern hemisphers

• the average distance from Earth to the Sun - about 150 million km

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What is a comet?

• an object made of gas, dust, and ice that moves around the Sun in an oval-shaped orbit

• an object made up of small, rocky particles that orbits the Sun in the asteroid belt

• an object made of gas in which nuclear fusion reactions occue that emit energy

• a round depression formed by the impact of a meteorite

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What does orbit mean?

• time it takes an object to complete one rotation

• occurs when the Moon moves into Earth's shadow

• a line on which an object rotates

• a path an object follows as it moves around another object

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What is an asteroid?

• the average distance from Earth to the Sun

• an object made of gas, dust, and ice that moves around the sun

• a small, rocky object that orbits the sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter

• time it take to complete one rotation

What is a meteor?

• small, rocky particle that moves through space

• streak of light in Earth's atomosphere

• a an imaginary line that divides Earth into its northern and southern hemispheres

• a motion of an object around another object

What is a period of rotation?

• time it takes an object to complete one revolution

• time it takes an object to complete one rotation

• time it takes for an object to move around another object

• time it takes for the sun to set

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What is a star?

• an object that is made of gas, dust and ice

• an object that is small and rocky that orbits the Sun

• an object in space made of gases in which nuclear fusion reactions occur that emit energy

• large, dark, flat areas on the Moon

What is an impact crater?

• a round depression formed by the impact of a meteorite on the surface of a space object

• the streak of light in Earth's atmosphere

• a meteorite that strikes a moon

• a large, dar, flat area on the Moon

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What is a meteorite?

• a lit part of the Moon or a planet that can be seen from Earth

• a path an object follows at it moves around another object

• the day when Earth's rotation axis is the most towards or away from the Sun

• A meteoroid that striles a planet or moon