Big Idea 5-Earth in Space Vocabulary

An extremely large group of stars, gas, and dust (including any objects that orbit those stars).

• Galaxy

• Revolution

• Rotation

• Coments

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

The movement of an orbiting planet completely around Sun. It takes Earth 365 days or one year to make a full revolution.

• Comets

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Asteroids

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A rocky or metallic object that orbits the Sun and is much smaller than a planet.

• Rotation

• Asteroids

• Comets

• Revolution

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The spinning motion around an imaginary axis of a celestial body such as a planet. It takes Earth 24 hours or one day to make a full rotation.

• Asteroids

• Comet

• Rotation

• Revolution

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

An object made of rock, ice, dust, and gas (tail) that revolves around the Sun.

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Galaxy

• Revolution

The four planets farthest away from the Sun, made of gas, with thick atmospheres, cold temperatures, many moons, rings, and longer years.

• Comets

• Inner Planets

• Outer Planets

• Asteroids

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The spiral galaxy of which our Sun and the Earth is part.

• Planets

• Milky Way

• Sun

• Revolution

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Is the ball of burning gas at the center of our Solar System that the Earth goes around, and that gives us heat and light.

• Sun

• Planets

• Milky Way

• Galaxy

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

The four planets closest to the Sun, that have solid composition, thin atmospheres, warmer temperatures, few/no moons, and shorter years.

• Outer Planets

• Comets

• Inner Planets

• Asteroids

A system containing a star and the bodies held in its gravitational field, including planets and their moons, dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets.

• Revolution

• Rotation

• Sun

• Solar System

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3