Solar System Vocbulary Review

A large body that revolves around the sun, has cleared it's neighborhood.

• Moon

• Phase

• Solar System

• Planet

A ball of rock, ice, and frozen gases that

revolves around the sun

• Comet

• Star

• Sun

• Constellation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The sun along with all of the planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and other frozen worlds

• solar system

• galaxy

• satellite

• asteroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Galaxy that our solar system is located in

• Andromeda Galaxy

• Milky Way Galaxy

• Mars Galaxy

Planets in order from the sun

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus

• Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus

• Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

An irregular shaped, cratered, rocky body orbiting the sun usually located between mars and Jupiter.

• asteroid

• comet

• meteoroid

Made of ice, called a "dirty snowball", and its tail is pointing away from the sun.

• asteroid
• meteor
• comet

Which one describes the asteroid belt?

• Between Saturn and Uranus

• Between the Mars and Jupiter

• Between the Sun and Mercury

• Between Earth and Mars

A celestial body that: (1) orbits the sun, (2) has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, is not a moon.

• polaris

• comet

• gas giant

• dwarf planet

Rocky planets that are composed mainly of silicate rocks and/or metals

• Ice Giant

• Terrestrial Planet

• Gas Giant

• Liquid Planets