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Investigation 1
Water Planet FOSS Investigation 1 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the galaxy in which our solar system resides | Milky Way |
| small solid objects that orbit the sun. Most are located between Mars and Jupiter | asteroids |
| a mass of ice and dust orbiting the sun | comet |
| a huge region beyond the gas giants made up of different size chunks of icy matter | Kuiper belt |
| Earth’s natural satellite | moon |
| to travel in a curved path around something else | orbit |
| a large body that orbits the Sun | planet |
| an object, natural or artificial, that orbits a larger object | satellite |
| the Sun, planets, satellites, comets and asteroids | solar system |
| any of the four small rocky planets closest to the sun | terrestrial planets |
| the star at the center of the solar system around which everything else orbits | Sun |
| any of the four planets made of gas | gas giants |