Unit 1: Lesson 1 Vocabulary MC

something that is shaped like a ball or sphere.

• Spherical

• Celestial

• Supernova

• Heliocentric

refers to anything related to the sky or outer space.

• Nuclear Fusion

• Orbit

• Celestial

• Emits

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The path that one object takes as it moves around another object in space

• Orbit

• Emits

• Supernova

• Star

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

a gigantic explosion in which a high-mass star throws its outer layers into space.

• Celestial

• Spherical

• Supernova

• Emits

assumed that the Earth was at the center of the solar system, with the sun, moon, and planets circling it.

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Celestial

• Orbit

Earth and the other planets orbit the sun.

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Supernova

• Orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The distance that light travels through space in one year.

• Galaxy

• Heliocentric

• Light-year

• Geocentric

A large cloud of gas and dust in space.

• Nebula

• Supernova

• Orbit

• Celestial

A large collection of stars, gas, and dust that is held together by gravity.

• Light-year

• Heliocentric

• Orbit

• Galaxy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Energy Production takes place in the center, or core, of a star. The combination of hydrogen and helium.

• Nuclear Fusion

• Geocentric

• Light-year

• Orbit

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-PS1-8