MS-ESS1-1 vocab

an object that orbits a planet

• satellite

• planet

• star

• comet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

a ball of hot gas

• satellite

• comet

• star

• ellipse

an object that orbits a star, is large enough to have become rounded by its own gravity

• meteor

• comet

• geocentric

• planet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

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

• comet

• planet

• meteor

• ellipse

a pattern or grouping of stars that suggest the outline of a figure or object

• constellation

• ellipse

• satellite

• comet

a loose collection of ice and dust that orbits the sun

• satellite

• star

• heliocentric

• comet

term describing a model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars

• meteor

• geocentric

• constellation

• heliocentric

an oval shape, the shape of the planets' orbits

• comet

• star

• planet

• ellipse

Term describing a model of the solar system in which Earth and other planets revolve around the sun

• ellipse

• heliocentric

• planet

• geocentric