Unit 7- Investigating the Solar System

Sun

• heat energy

• a ball of hot gas, mainly hydrogen and helium, closest star to Earth, center of our solar system

• third planet from the sun, orbits around the sun

• orbits(goes around) the Earth

thermal energy

• major bodies that orbit(go around) a star

• heat energy

• moving waves of light

• to spin

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

star

• a ball of hot gas, mainly hydrogen and helium

• moving waves of light

• go around

• a representation of an object

rotate/rotation

• major bodies that orbit(go around) a star

• separates inner and outer planets

• closest star to Earth

• to spin daily

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Moon

• moving waves of light

• to spin daily

• heat energy

• orbits(goes around) the Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

light energy

• to spin daily

• moving waves of light

• heat energy

• closest star to Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

solar system

• the way in which two or more objects are connected/related

• major bodies that orbit(go around) a star

• separates inner and outer planets

• the sun, planets, and all the other objects that travel around the sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

relationship

• major bodies that orbit(go around) a star

• the sun, planets, and all the other objects that travel around the sun

• the way in which two or more objects are connected/related

• a representation of an object

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

planets

• go around

• separates inner and outer planets

• a ball of hot gas, mainly hydrogen and helium

• major bodies that orbit(go around) a star

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

order of the planets

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• closest star to Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3