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TEKS 3.9B
The Solar System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Inner planet | Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars |
| outer planet | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune |
| model | a smaller, simpler representation of an object or system used to help people understand how it looks or works |
| moon | a natural object made of rock that orbits around a planet |
| orbit | the curved path that an object in space takes as it travels around another object |
| solar system | a collection of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets that orbit around a central star. |
| Sun | the star at the center of the solar system |