Part 2 Solar System Vocabulary Test

What are instruments that make distant objects appear nearer?

• satellites

• microscopes

• telephones

• telescopes

What is the fragment of rock and ice or metal that burns up in earth's atmosphere?

• asteroids

• craters

• meteors

• tides

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Who is a person who goes to outer space?

• doctor

• astronaut

• nurse

• teacher

A number of stars that appears to form a pattern is called ____.

• constellation

• meteor

• planet

• stars

A person who studies outer space is ______.

• scientist

• lawyer

• principal

• astronomer

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Something that orbits another object of a larger size is a/an _____.

• telescopes

• asteroids

• satellite

• axis

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The daily rise and fall of the earth's big bodies of water due to the pull of the moon's gravity is called ________,

• waves

• tides

• tornado

• hurricanes

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The four larges planets are called _______.

• terrestrial planet

• moons

• gas giants

• satellites

What are the different appearances of the moon as it orbits the Earth called?

• moon phases

• constellation

• meteors

• asteroids

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What is a planet that is made mostly of rocks and metals?

• gas giant

• terrestrial

• satellites

• sun