Space Vocabulary

What is the path followed by a moon, planet, or artificial satellite as it travels around another body in space?

• Sun

• Planet

• Orbit

• Ellipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What is a natural moon or man-made object that orbits a planet or other object?

• Satellite

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Ellipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

What is a ball of frozen gases, rock, and dust, about the size of a small town, that orbits the Sun?

• Satellite

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Ellipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is a small chunk of rock or iron that travels through space?

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

• Gravity

What is a space rock that becomes so hot it glows when it passes into Earth's atmosphere?

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

• Gravity

What is a rock that has fallen to Earth from outer space?

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

• Gravity

What is a term for a large round object that revolves around a star?

• meteorite

• planet

• Sun

• Gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What is the central body of the solar system?

• Sun

• Planet

• Orbit

• Ellipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What is a rocky object in space that can be a few feet wide to several hundred miles wide?

• Satellite

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Ellipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The sun and its planets, along with moons, asteroids, and comets

• dwarf planet

• planet

• outer planet

• solar system

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3