Vocabulary Earth, Sun and Moon

Earth's medium-sized star that is the center of our solar system

• Earth

• Moon

• Sun

• Crater

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The third planet from the Sun; where we live

• Satellite

• Moon

• Earth

• Venus

Earth's closest companion that revolves around the Earth. Reflects light from the Sun.

• Moon

• Satellite

• Crater

• Sun

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Bowl-shaped indention on the surface of a planet, moon, or asteroid caused by a collision with another object.

• Satellite

• Crater

• Terrestrial

• Orbit

A body or object that revolves around a larger body in space.

• Lunar

• Crater

• Sun

• Satellite

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The force that pulls on objects in the universe toward one another.

• Weight

• Mass

• Gravity

• Orbit

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

Uses a spring scale to measure the pull of gravity toward Earth's surface. You have less of this on the moon.

• Mass

• Terrestrial

• Weight

• Volume

The amount of matter in an object. This remains the same on the Earth and moon.

• Mass

• Weight

• Matter

• Orbit

Not out in space or in water - Land.

• Extra Terrestrial

• Terrestrial

• Aquatic

• Mass

The PATH one object takes as it revolves around another object in space.

• Revolution

• Rotation

• Terrestrial

• Orbit

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4