Space Sol

Someone who travels beyond Earth in a spaceship

• astronomer

• astrologist

• astronaut

Everything in space, including the stars, planets and black holes

• universe

• solar system

• galaxy

The Earth and other planets that orbit the Sun

• Nebulae

• Solar system

• Rotation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

A huge, very hot ball of gas that is in the center of our solar system

• Sun

• milky way

• Saturn

An object that moves in a fixed path around another object, like the Earth moves around a Sun

• Moon

• Satellite

• Planet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The path that the Earth and the other planets follow as each one moves around the sun

• Rotation

• Orbit

• Revolution

The movement of the Earth around the Sun. This takes around 365 days.

• Rotation

• Orbit

• Revolution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The movement of the Earth around its own axis. This takes around 24 hours.

• Rotation

• Orbit

• Revolution

An imaginary line through the Earth. The Earth turns around this line.

• Pole

• Rod

• Axis

Any object that rotates around any body in space.

• Satellite

• Comet

• Stars

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2