ESS 1-2 Gravity, Galaxies, and the Solar System Vocabulary

A _______ is all of space and everything in it including stars, planets, galaxies, etc.

• Galaxy
• Light Year
• Universe
• Heliocentric

A _______ is a collection of stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity.

• Celestial body
• Mass
• Star
• Galaxy

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The _______ is a large spiral galaxy that is home to our solar system and about a trillion other stars.

• Snickers
• Milky Way
• Meteoroid
• Star

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The _______ astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the solar system.

• Starocentric
• Geocentric
• Matterocentric
• Heliocentric

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A _______ is an exploding ball of burning gas held together by gravity, creates its own heat and light

• Planet
• Star
• Matter
• Galaxy

The average distance between Earth and the sun is an ______________.

• Star Unit (SU)
• Distance Unit (DU)
• Astronomical Unit (AU)
• Planetoid Unit (PU)

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A ______ is the distance light travels in one year (one light year is 5.8 trillion miles).

• Star year
• Distance
• Universe
• Light year

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A force of attraction between objects with mass is_______

• Gravity
• Mass
• Distance
• Time

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______ is a strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement.

• Gravity
• Force
• Weight
• Heliocentric

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Anything with mass that takes up space is _______

• Mass
• Weight
• Matter
• Force

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