CKLA Unit 7 Week 1 vocabulary

What does 'solar system' mean?

• The sun and other bodies like asteroids and meteors and planets in orbit

• A single planet and its moons

• A group of stars forming a constellation

• A galaxy containing billions of stars

What is the definition of 'orbit'?

• The process of a star forming

• To spin rapidly

• The curved path something in space takes around another object

• A straight line path through space

What does 'rotate' mean?

• To turn on an axis or a center

• To orbit around a star

• To move in a straight line

• To expand and contract

What is an 'eclipse'?

• A type of star

• A planet's atmosphere

• Event that occurs when one object in outer space blocks the sunlight reaching another object

• A meteor shower

What are 'meteoroids'?

• Stars that have exploded

• Small pieces of metal or rock that travel through the solar system and are much smaller than an asteroid

• Large planets orbiting a star

• Comets with long tails