Vocabulary Workshop
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Axis | an imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and the North and South poles, about which the Earth rotates. | Orbit | the path of an object as it revolves around another object in space. | Comet | a loose collection of ice, dust, and small rocky particles, typically with a long narrow orbit
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| Diameter | 1.A straight line passing from side to side through the center of a body or figure, | Greenhouse Effect | the trapping of heat by a planet's atmosphere. | Kuiper Belt | a doughnut shaped region that stretches from around Pluto's orbit to abut 100 times Earth's distance fromt the Sun.
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| Milky Way | the spiral galaxy in which our solar system is located | Terrestrial Planet | the four inner planets, they have rocky surfaces. | Oort Cloud | a spherical region of comets that surrounds the solar system.
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| Moon Phase | one of the apparent shapes of the moon as seen from Earth. | Gas Giant | name given to the first four outer planets; Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,Neptune | Asteroid Belt | the region of the solar system between the orbits aof Mars and Jupiter, where many asteroids are found
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| Planet | celestial body orbiting a star | Asteroid | Rocky objects revolving around the sun that a too small and numerous to be considered planets. | Meteoroid | a chuck of rock or dust in space
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| Rotation | the spinning motion of a planet on its axis | Ring | a thin disk of small ice and rock particles surrounding a planet | Meteorite | a meteoroid that passes through the atmosphere and hits Earth's surface
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| Revelution | the amount of time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun, 365 days. | Meteor | a streak of light in the sky produced by the buring of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere |
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To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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