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 rocks and metal
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comets | Balls of ice and dust
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Solar Systm | 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 the earth
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Meteorites | Falling chunks of rocks and metal
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Asteroid Belt | The area between the inner and outer planets; It is filled with thousands and 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 sucks up everything around them;Created when a dying star collapses 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;More rare than novas
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Quasar | The brightest objects in the universe,they give off huge amounts of raido 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 travles in a year;Equals 6 Trillion miles
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Satellite | An object that orbits a planet; Also called a moon if it is not manmade
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Milkey Way | A misty band of light seen on most dark nights;It is the densest part of are own galaxy
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