Earth in Space Partial Vocabulary Review

A vast concentration of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust

• Planet

• Nebula

• Universe

• Galaxy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

A spherical body which orbits a star, and does not emit heat or light

• Planet

• Comet

• Nebula

• Asteroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

All the matter, energy, and space that exists

• Universe

• Galaxy

• Sun

• Meteoroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

A massive, spherical body of gas that emits heat and light

• Planet

• Galaxy

• Star

• Comet

A star together with the planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and dust which orbit it

• Galaxy

• Universe

• Asteroid

• Solar System

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is the name of our Galaxy?

• The Milky Way

• Orion's Arm

• Andromeda

• Laniakea

What is the correct order of planets?

Starting with Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars...

• Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn

• Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter

• A metallic or silica-rich rocky remnant of an early solar system usually between 1km and 950km in diameter is a/an

• asteroid

• Meteoroid

• star

• nebula

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

 A small orbiting body made of rock and ice that consists of a nucleus, a coma, and 1 or more tails pointing away from the Sun is a/an

• Asteroid

• Nebula

• Meteoroid

• Comet

The Big Bang Theory proposes that the universe began as a ____________________and has been ________________________ ever since.

• Single point, expanding

• Nebula, expanding

• Star, shrinking

• Planet, shrinking

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-2