Space Vocabulary

a spacecraft that gathers data without a crew

• spaceship

• rocket

• space probe /satellite

• planet

a natural object that revolves around a planet

• sun

• star

• planet

• moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

a frozen mass of different types of ice and dust orbiting the sun

• comet

• asteroid

• meteor

• planet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

our home galaxy

• galaxy

• Mars

• Milky Way galaxy

• Snickers Galaxy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

any of the four planets in our solar system beyond Mars

• inner planets

• outer planets

• galaxy

• asteroid

Which term describes the composition of the outer planets?

• rocky

• water

• solid

• gaseous

THE TIME IT TAKES AN OBJECT TO COMPLETE ITS ORBIT 

• rotation

• revolution

• orbit

• tilt

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

A PATH 

• rotation

• waning

• elliptical

• orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

LESS THAN HALF LIT UP OR ILLUMINATED

• elliptical

• gibbous

• lacus

• crescent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

REFERS TO THE PORTIONS OF THE MOON THAT LOOK LIKE LAKES 

• libration

• orbit

• lacus

• gibbous