Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
1 full orbit of an object around another object
What is revolution
100
a rocky mass up to several hundred km wide that revolves around the sun.
What is an asteroid?
100
A frozen mass of different types of ice and dust orbiting the sun.
What is a comet?
200
an imaginary center line around which the earth rotates.
What is axis?
200
An object that orbits around another object.
What is satellite?
300
whole spin of an object on its axis
What is rotation?
300
a piece of meteor that lands on earth.
What is meteorite?
400
a spacecraft that gathers data without a crew.
What is space probe?
400
A piece of stone or metal that travels in outer space.
What is a meteoroid?
500
An object from space that passes through the atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
500
the sun and all the bodies that orbit it.
What is solar system?
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