Lesson 2 Vocabulary - Asteroid Alert!

A line through the center of an object that the object rotates around?

• Orbit

• Axis

• Gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Which term describes a system of millions of stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity?

• Gravity

• Meteor Shower

• Galaxy

• Orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

What adjective is used to describe something related to the Moon?

• Lunar

• Wax

• Wane

• Milky Way

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A natural phenomenon when all things with mass are brought toward one another?

• Axis

• Gravity

• Orbit

• Lunar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What is it called when many meteors are seen from the same point in the sky?

• Lunar Phase

• Milky Way

• Meteor Shower

• Galaxy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is the curved path a planet or object takes as it travels through space?

• Axis

• Orbit

• Wane

• Wax

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

What term means increasing in size?

Time when the illuminating (bright) part of the Moon is getting larger

• Wane

• Wax

• Lunar

• Gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What term means decreasing in size?

Time when the illuminating (bright) part of the Moon is getting smaller

• Wax

• Lunar

• Wane

• Axis

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What are the shapes of Moon seen from Earth called?

• Milky Way

• Lunar Phase

• Galaxy

• Meteor Shower

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is the name of the galaxy that the Solar System belongs to?

• Milky Way

• Axis

• Orbit

• Lunar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2