Astronomy Terms Quiz

A celestial body that revolves around a planet

• Moon

• Eclipse

• Meteor

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A celestial body of ice, dust, and rock with an elongated and elliptical orbit

• Moon

• Comet

• Tide

A large and small rocks or metallic masses orbiting the Sun; made up of materials similar to those that formed the planets

• Meteriod

• Meteor

• Asteroid

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

a curved path followed by a satellite as it revolves around an object; the path an object follows as it revolves around another.

• Orbit

• Axis

• Rotation

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

the attraction between two objects due to the invisible force of gravity; the gravitational pull from the Moon is primarily responsible for the tides that form on Earth

• Axial Tilt

• Gravitational Pull

• Planetary system

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

a small object that enters Earth's atmosphere from space and burns due to friction, emitting light

• Asteroid

• Meteroid

• Meteor

A chunk of material smaller than an asteroid that orbits the sun

• Asteroid

• Meteroid

• Meteor

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

the Moon's repeated pattern of changes in appearance Due to its position relative to Earth and the Sun; a stage in the changing shape that the moon seems to have when it is viewed from Earth

• Moon Phases

• Revolution

• Orbit

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

an obscuring of the light from a celestial body by the passage of an object between the celestial body and the observer or between the celestial body and its source of illumination

• Sunspot

• Eclipse

• Solar flare

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

the rise and fall of the level of the sea in response to the pull of the Moon's gravity

• Tide

• Axial tilt

• First quarter

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1