Big Idea 5 Vocab Summative

Asteroid

• A large object in space that is made of gas and produces its own light.
• A large chunk of rock and metal with an irregular shape that orbits the Sun and is much smaller than a planet.
• A system of planets and other bodies that orbits a star.
• A group of stars which form a pattern and have a name.

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Atmosphere

• When the right half of the lit portion of the Moon is visible to us. It comes a week after the New Moon.
• The different ways the Moon looks from Earth over about a month. Repeats every month.
• The layer of air or other gases around it. Thin in inner planets and thick in outer planets.
• When the left half of the lit portion of the Moon is visible to us. It comes a week after the Full Moon.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Axis

• The four planets closest to the sun; Mercury, Venus, Earth, or Mars.
• A large body in space that orbits a star and does not produce its own light.
• A real or imaginary line through the center of an object, around which the object turns.
• A medium sized star. Closest star to Earth that provides light and heat energy.

Comet

• A large object in space that is made of gas and produces its own light.
• An object made of rock, ice, dust, and gas that revolves around the Sun and has a tail.
• A natural object that orbits a planet.
• The motion of one object around another object.

First Quarter

• The motion of one object around another object.
• The layer of air or other gases around it. Thin in inner planets and thick in outer planets.
• When the right half of the lit portion of the Moon is visible to us. It comes a week after the New Moon.
• When the Moon cannot be seen because we are looking at the unlit half of the Moon.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Full Moon

• Phase when we can see the entire lit portion of the Moon.
• A large object in space that is made of gas and produces its own light.
• A real or imaginary line through the center of an object, around which the object turns.
• When the right half of the lit portion of the Moon is visible to us. It comes a week after the New Moon.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Galaxy

• A group of billions of stars, gas, dust, and objects that orbit the stars.
• A real or imaginary line through the center of an object, around which the object turns.
• When the right half of the lit portion of the Moon is visible to us. It comes a week after the New Moon.
• When the left half of the lit portion of the Moon is visible to us. It comes a week after the Full Moon.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Inner Planets

• A group of stars which form a pattern and have a name.
• An object made of rock, ice, dust, and gas that revolves around the Sun and has a tail.
• The four planets closest to the sun; Mercury, Venus, Earth, or Mars.
• A natural object that orbits a planet.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Last (Third) Quarter

• The different ways the Moon looks from Earth over about a month. Repeats every month.
• When the left half of the lit portion of the Moon is visible to us. It comes a week after the Full Moon.
• The layer of air or other gases around it. Thin in inner planets and thick in outer planets.
• An object made of rock, ice, dust, and gas that revolves around the Sun and has a tail.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Milky Way Galaxy

• The path of an object around a particular point in space.
• Our home galaxy.
• An object made of rock, ice, dust, and gas that revolves around the Sun and has a tail.
• Phase when we can see the entire lit portion of the Moon.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2