The Eight Planets Vocabulary Quiz

The planet were humans live; the third planet from the Sun. One of the inner planets.

• Ellipse

• Planet

• Earth

• Rotate

The bright star that the planets move around.

• Solar System

• Sun

• Revolve

• Planet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The system which includes the Sun, the major planets, and other objects such as moons, asteroids, and comets.

• Solar System

• Sun

• Orbit

• Rotate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

To spin on an axis, which the planets do.

• Revolve

• Rotate

• Sun

• Ellipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

To move around another object. The planets do this around the sun.

• Revolve

• Rotate

• Solar System

• Sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

A large, ball-shaped object (sphere) made of gases or rocky material.

• Revolve

• Orbit

• Planet

• Sun

The path of one object around another; for example, the path of the planets around the Sun or the path of the Moon around the Earth.

• Planet

• Orbit

• Rotate

• Revolve

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

The slightly oval shape of the path of the planets around the sun.

• Ellipse

• Orbit

• Solar System

• Earth