Solar System Vocabulary

Rotate means:

• to move around another object
• to spin
• move up and down

A natural body that revolves around a planet

• Moon

• Phase

• Solar System

• Planet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A star and all the planets and other

objects that revolve around it

• Moon

• Phase

• Solar System

• Planet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

A large body that revolves around a star

• Moon

• Phase

• Solar System

• Planet

A ball of rock, ice, and frozen gases that

revolves around the sun

• Comet

• Star

• Sun

• Constellation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A huge ball of superheated gases

• Comet

• Star

• Sun

• Constellation

The star at the center of our solar system

• Comet

• Star

• Sun

• Constellation

A pattern of stars that form an imaginary picture or design in the sky.

• Comet

• Star

• Sun

• Constellation

A rock that orbits the sun.

• asteroid

• meteorite

• crater

• gas giant

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

a piece of rock or metal that has fallen to the ground from outer space

• meteorite

• asteroid

• methane

• planet