Solar System Vocabulary Quiz

What does it mean to rotate?

• To travel in a closed path

• To spin around an axis

• To move in a closed path

• To revolve around another object

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is an axis?

• An imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole

• A natural body that revolves around a planet

• A pattern of stars that form an imaginary picture or design in the sky

• A huge ball of superheated gasses

What is a phase?

• A huge ball of superheated gasses

• A pattern of stars that form an imaginary picture or design in the sky

• One of the shapes the moon seems to have as it orbits Earth

• An imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is a star?

• To spin around an axis

• A natural body that revolves around a planet

• A huge ball of superheated gasses

• To move in a closed path

What is a constellation?

• A pattern of stars that form an imaginary picture or design in the sky

• An imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole

• To travel in a closed path

• To revolve around another object

What is the Sun?

• To spin around an axis

• A natural body that revolves around a planet

• The star at the center of your universe

• To move in a closed path

What is a planet?

• To spin around an axis

• A large body that revolves around a star

• To move in a closed path

• To revolve around another object

What does it mean to revolve?

• To spin around an axis

• To move in a closed path

• To travel in a closed path

• To revolve around another object

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What is an orbit?

• An imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole

• A natural body that revolves around a planet

• The closed path of one object in space around another object

• A pattern of stars that form an imaginary picture or design in the sky

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What is a moon?

• To spin around an axis

• A natural body that revolves around a planet

• To move in a closed path

• To revolve around another object

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2