Unit1 vocabulary

A shining _____________ that circled the earth with the light of the Sun on its face.

• Star

• Moon

• Asteroid

• Meteorite

The Sun was a speck of bright light in the Milky Way ________ shaped like a disk.

• Stars

• Solar system

• Galaxy

• Asteroid

He looked through his _____________ at the approaching ship.

• Sight

• Observatory

• Telescope

• glasses

Katie is obsessed with the secret of the universe, so he often visits the _____________ to learn more about our universe.

• Space probe

• Spacecraft

• Observatory

• Astronomer

_________is an object that is seen on rare occasions from the earth as

a bright line in the sky.

• asteroid
• planet
• comet
• satellite

We could see hundreds of____________in the clear desert sky.

• Meteorites

• Comets

• Stars

• Asteroids

_________is a piece of rock or other matter from space that has landed on earth.

• Comet

• Asteroid

• Meteorite

• Crater

• There are eight planets in our _____________, our earth is one of them.

• galaxy
• universe
• solar system
• moon

There are billions of stars in the _______________.

• Universe
• Spacecraft

• Observatory

• Solar system

__________is a small rocky body orbiting the Sun.

• Meteorite

• Moon

• Asteroid

• Comet