Vocabulary
The sun and the bodies that orbit around it.
What is the solar system?
Objects made of clay and rock that orbit the Sun
What is an asteroid?
The name of "Earth's Satellite".
What is the moon?
Exploration devices that are designed to land on a planet or celestial body and collect information.
What is a rover?
Name a celestial body that emits light.
What is a star or The Sun?
Objects in space that orbit around another larger object.
What is satellite?
A celestial body that is like a planet but not classified as such.
What is dwarf planet?
How many planets are there in our soalr system?
What is 8?
Unmanned spacecraft designed to collect information as it travels through space.
What is a probe?
Name the planets in order, including the asteroid belt.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroid Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
Natural bodies located beyond Earth's atmosphere, such as stars and planets.
What is celestial body?
A natural satellite or body that travels around a planet.
What is moon?
What do artificial satellites and natural satellites have in common?
What is both orbit another, larger object?
Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet?
What is "it does not clear away objects and debris in its orbit"?
To give out.
What is emit?
Objects made of dust and ice that orbit the Sun.
What is a comet?
What are the two hottest planets?
What is Mercury and Venus?
The name of the research facility that orbits Earth, where astronauts work.
What is International Space Station (ISS)?
Name three barriers to living and working in space.
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What is staying strong, staying clean, floating objects?
The recurring path of an object around another object in space.
What is orbit?
Objects made of rock or metal that orbit the Sun and may fall to Earth.
What is meteoroid?
Name the planets known as the gas giants.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus?
The first satellite put into orbit by Alberta.
What is Ex-Alta 1?
What is The Hubble Space Telescope.