Very Important Space Vocabulary
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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| asteroids | chunks of rock and metal
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| comets | balls of ice and dust
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| solar system | the sun and all the bodies that orbit around it
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| orbit | the path of a planet or other object around another object
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| atmosphere | layers of air around the earth
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| gravity | the force that pulls objects toward the center of a planet
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| meteorites | falling chunks of rock and metal
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| asteroid belt | the area between the inner and outer planets; it is filled with thousands of asteroids
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| year | the time it takes for a planet to go all the way around the sun
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| black hole | great big vacuum cleaners in space which suck up everything around them (created when a dying star collapses in on itself)
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| nova | a star which has just exploded
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| supernova | a star which has just exploded with much more force than a nova (much rarer than novas)
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| quasar | the brightest objects in the universe. They give off huge amounts of radio and light energy
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| nebula | a cloud of dust and gas within a galaxy
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| light year | distance light travels in a year (equals 6 trillion miles)
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| satellite | an object that orbits a planet. Also called a moon if not man-made
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| Milky Way | a misty band of light seen on most dark nights. It is the densest part of our galaxy
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| mass | the amount of matter in an object. May be thought of as an object's weight
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| Van Allen Belt | a broad, doughnut-shaped belt of radiation temporarily trapped by the earth's magnetic field and encircling the earth at varying levels
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