Solar System Vocabulary

The planet where humans live.

• Planet

• Earth

• Orbit

• Sun

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

• Orbit

• Revolve

• Ellipse

• Rotate

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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.

• Orbit

• Rotate

• Solar System

• Ellipse

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

• Solar System

• planet

• orbit

• sun

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

• revolve

• rotate

• orbit

• sun

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To spin on an axis, which the planets do.

• Ellipse

• Rotate

• Sun

• Earth

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

• orbit

• solar system

• sun

• Earth

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The bright star that the planets move around. It is the center of our solar system.

• Earth

• Orbit

• Sun

• solar system

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The air which surrounds a planet

• ellipse

• solar system

• atmosphere

• orbit

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Usable power that takes different forms.

• Energy

• atmosphere

• orbit

• solar system

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