Heirarchical Relationships/Galaxy Vocab

Astronomical Unit

• distance between the Sun and Earth

• Huge group of stars, gas, dust all held together by gravity

• distance light travels in one year

• Consists of the sun, the planets, their moons and smaller objects

• All of space and everything in it

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Asteroid

• Distance that light travels in a year

• small, rocky bodies mostly found between Mars and Jupiter

• ice and rock with long, narrow orbits

• all of space and everything it it

Comets

• distance from Earth to the Sun

• natural satellite that orbit a planet

• loose balls of ice and dust

• small, rocky bodies found between Mars and Jupiter

Moon

• All of space and everything in it

• small, rocky body found between Mars and Jupiter

• loose balls of ice and rock

• Natural Satellite

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Planet

• distance between Earth and the Sun

• loose balls of ice and rock

• round, orbits the sun and has cleared out the region of the solar system

• small, rocky body found between Mars and Jupiter

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Universe

• distance between the sun and earth

• all of space and everything in it

• distance light travels in a year

• gaseous body in our solar system

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Galaxy

• distance light travels in a year

• all of space and everything in it

• huge group of stars, gas, dust all held by gravity

• distance between the sun and earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Light Year

• huge group of stars, gas, dust held by gravity

• distance light travels in one year

• distance between earth and the sun

• round, orbits the sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Moon

• natural satellite that orbits a planet

• loose balls of ice and rock that usually have very long, narrow orbits

• smaller rock and dust that may enter Earth's atmosphere

• small, rocky bodies, many of which are found between Mars and Jupiter

• round, orbits the sun and has cleared out the region along its orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Meteoroid

• smaller chunks of dust and rock that may enter Earth's atmosphere

• small rock and dust that are mostly found between Mars and Jupiter

• loose balls of ice and dust

• gaseous body larger than anything else in the solar system