Solar System Vocabulary

Front

What is a large body that revolves around a star?

Back

Planet

Front

What do we call the spinning of a planet on its axis?

Back

Rotation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Front

What is the term for a star and all the planets and other objects that revolve around it?

Back

Solar System

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Front

What is a natural body that revolves around a planet?

Back

Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Front

What do we call a pattern of stars that form an imaginary picture or design in the sky?

Back

Constellation

Front

What is the name of the closest star to Earth?

Back

Sun

Front

What is a celestial object made of ice and dust that orbits the Sun?

Back

Comet

Front

What do we call the path that a planet takes as it revolves around the Sun?

Back

Orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Front

What is the term for the time it takes for the Earth to complete one full rotation on its axis?

Back

Day

Front

What is the name of the fourth planet from the Sun?

Back

Mars