Solar System Vocab

force of attraction between two objects

• Nuclear force
• Electromagnetic force
• Gravitational force
• Frictional force

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

small body made of ice and rock, that orbits the sun, and has a long tail as it gets close to the sun

• meteor
• planet
• comet
• asteroid

rocky body that orbits the Sun, and is bigger than a comet

• Asteroid
• Meteorite
• Moon
• Planet

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

part of the Earth that includes all living things and their environments

• atmosphere
• hydrosphere
• lithosphere
• biosphere

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

4 largest moons of Jupiter

• Moons

• The Big Moons

• Earth's Moons

• Galilean Moons

large planets composed mainly of hydrogen and helium swirling above a solid core (Jovian Planets)

• Rocky planets
• Gas Planets

• Ice giants
• Dwarf planets

flat ring of small, icy bodies that revolves around the Sun outside of Neptune's orbit

• Main Belt
• Oort Cloud
• Kuiper Belt
• Asteroid Belt

believed to be a spherical shell of small icy bodies that surround our solar system

• Oort Cloud
• Asteroid Belt
• Heliosphere
• Kuiper Belt

small, rocky body that can enter the atmosphere

• meteor
• planet
• asteroid
• comet

planets and other celestial bodies that orbit around a star

• comets that travel through the solar system
• asteroids that float in space
• solar system

• moons that orbit around a planet

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3