Stars, Planets, Moon, & Earth Vocabulary

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[] is a luminous, hot, and massive ball of gas that produces light and heat.

• A star

• A planet

• An orbit

• A telescope

• The Solar System

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[] is a natural body that orbits around a star.

Some consist of rock, and some consist of gas.

• An orbit

• A constellation

• A star

• A planet

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   [] is an object that orbits a planet or another object that is not a star. 

   1. Some are made up of chunks of rocks and dust.

   2. Some are made up of ice, gas, and/or other chemicals.

• A Solar System

• A star

• A moon

• A planet

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[] is a group of stars that appear to form a pattern or picture.

• A star

• 1. A constellation

• A planet

• A telescope

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[] are a tool that astronomers use to see faraway objects. This tool works by using curved mirrors to gather and focus light from the night sky.

• Telescopes

• Solar Systems

• Planets

• Orbits

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   [] is a regular, repeating path that one object takes around another object or center of gravity.

• A star

• A planet

• A solar system

• An orbit

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1. The [], located in the Milky Way Galaxy, is our celestial neighborhood. It consists of 8 planets, several dwarf planets, dozens of moons, millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. All objects are bound by gravity to the Sun, which is the star at the center.

• Telescope

• Solar System

• Orbit

• Star

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

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Match the following term to the picture.

• orbit

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• planets

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• telescope

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• star

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• moon

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Read the sentence below. Which words listed are all nouns from the sentence?

Remember nouns are a person, place, thing, or idea.

Valerie is using a telescope to view the stars in the night sky.

• Valerie

  telescope

  stars

  sky

• Valerie

  view

  stars

  using

• view

  to

  in

  night

• Valerie

  telescope

  view

  night

What is the verb in the sentence below?

Remember a verb describes an action. It tells what the subject is doing.

The moon orbits the Earth.

• moon

• Earth

• orbits

• The