Stars and Planets Vocabulary Practice

This is a ball of hot gases that give off light

• star

• moon

This is a group of stars that form a pattern shaped like an animal, person, or object.

• constellation

• solar system

What is a satellite?

• An object that moves around a larger object.

• A star that emits its own light.

What is this a picture of?

• telescope

• satellite

• space probe

• microscope

A group of stars that make a pattern in the sky

• star calendar

• solar sytem

• constellation

• universe

A fidget spins on its axis like a planet _______on its axis

• rotating

• revolving

• dancing

• orbiting

What is the correct answer?

• A telescope makes objects look blurry.

• A telescope makes distant objects look closer and brighter.

• A telescope makes objects look far away.

• A telescope can be bought from Piggly Wiggly.

______means to move around another object

• Moonwalk

• Rotate

• Circulate

• Revolve

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The chart is classifying which part of the solar system?

• constellations

• stars

• planets

• galaxies

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3