Solar System

Large celestial bodies that orbit the Sun and have cleared their orbital paths of debris -

• Gravity

• Planets

• Orbit

• Kuiper belt

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Small, rocky bodies that orbit the Sun, mostly found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter-

• Kuiper belt

• Revolution

• Asteroids

• Comets

Force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center -

• Asteroids

• Gravity

• Moons

• Moons

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

The distance from a star at which liquid water could exist on orbiting planets' surfaces-

• Asteroids

• Kuiper belt

• Habitable zone

• Planets

In a region of space located past Neptune -

• Oort cloud

• Moons

• Meteor

• Kuiper Belt

Natural satellites that orbit planets -

• Atmosphere

• Moons

• Orbit

• Rotation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Most distant region of our solar system

• Habitable zone

• Moons

• Oort Cloud

• Asteroids

One complete trip of a planet around the Sun -

• Gravity

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Asteroids

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The spinning of a planet or moon on its axis -

• Moons

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5