Solar System Vocabulary

All existing matter and space.

• What is a Solstice?

• What is a Universe?

• What is a Equinox?

• What is a Planet?

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An event in which the shadow of one celestial body falls on another.

• What is and Eclipse?

• What is a planet?

• What is an Equinox?

• What is a Universe?

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Imaginary line around which an object rotates.

• What is a Rotation?

• What is a Satellite?

• What is an Equinox?

• What is an Axis?

Natural or artificial object that orbits another object in space.

• What is a Planet?

• What is a Satellite?

• What is an Astronomical Unit?

• What is an Axis?

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

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Spinning motion of a planet on its axis.

• What is a Satellite?

• What is Orbit?

• What is Rotation?

• What is an Asteroid?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Distance between earth and the sun, 150 million km.

• What is Revolution?

• What is an Equinox?

• What is an Asteroid?

• What is an Astronomical Unit?

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A small body made of rock and metal that moves around the sun (between Mars and Jupiter)

• What is an Asteroid?

• What is Gravity?

• What is Orbit?

• What is an Equinox?

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Force of attraction that pulls objects toward each other due to their masses.

• What is a Revolution?

• What is Solstice?

• What is Gravity?

• What is a Planet?

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

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A large body in space that orbits a star and does not produce light.

• What is an Asteroid?

• What is a Planet?

• What is a Solstice?

• What is an Equinox?

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The path a body travels as it moves around another in space.

• What is Orbit?

• What is Rotation?

• What is Revolution?

• What is an Axis?

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

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