Solar System Vocab

Question 1

the collection of the sun and all the celestial bodies that are bound to it by gravity, including planers, moons, comets, and asteroids

Answer 1

solar system

Question 2

the curved path that a celestial boy takes as it revolves around another body in space, such as a planet around the sun

Answer 2

orbit

Question 3

leftover material from the formation of the solar system made of rocks and metal

Answer 3

asteroids

Question 4

rock and metal made from comets and asteroids flying in the atmosphere

Answer 4

meteors, meteorites, or meteoroids

Question 5

clumped minerals which orbits are long, narrow eclipses

Answer 5

comet

Question 6

a celestial body that orbits the sun and is similar to a planet, but doesn’t clear its orbit

Answer 6

dwarf planet

Question 7

an instrument that magnifies light to observe distant celestial objects

Answer 7

telescope

Question 8

an object that orbits a planet, such as the Moon or a man-made satellite

Answer 8

satellite

Question 9

a natural object outside of earth’s atmosphere, including stars, planets, Moon, asteroids, and comets

Answer 9

celestial body

Question 10

an elongated circle; the shape of 2 planets being behind or in front of the other

Answer 10

eclipse

Question 11

the force that pulls objects toward another, such as the force that keeps planets in orbit around the sun

Answer 11

gravitational attraction

Question 12

the specific paths that celestial bodies follow as they move through space

Question 13

the materials and elements that make up a celestial body, such as rocks metal, and gases

Answer 13

composition

Question 14

the largest planets in the solar system; mercury, Venus, earth, mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

Answer 14

major planets

Question 15

the locations of planets of planets in their orbits around the sun at any given time

Answer 15

planetary positions