Science STAAR Earth and Space

large, rocky objects that revolve around the sun. Found in the Asteroid Belt.

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Astronomy

• Axis

the study of objects in space and their characteristics.

• Astronomy

• Biology

• Topography

• Geology

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

an imaginary line that goes through Earth from pole to pole

• Axis

• Comet

• Galaxy

• Orbit

is a chunk of frozen gases, rock, ice and dust

• Comet

• Dwarf Planet

• Meteor

• Asteroid

are nearly round bodies whose orbits cross the orbits of other bodies

• Dwarf Planet

• Dwarfs

• Galaxy

• Comet

is a group of billions of stars. The objects that orbit the stars, gas and dust.

• Galaxy

• Meteor

• Meteorite

• Meteoroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere.

• Meteor

• Meteorite

• Meteoroid

• Orbit

A meteoroid that has hit earth's surface.

• Meteorite

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Asteroid

small rocky or metallic objects that travel in space.

• Meteoroid

• Orbit

• Planet

• Meteor

the path one space object takes around another object

• Orbit

• Planet

• Dwarf Planet

• Galaxy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5