solar System unit
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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| star | a large hot ball glowing gases
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| tilt | move or cause to move in a sloping position
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| orbit | the curved path of celestial
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| moon | a natural satellite that orbits a plante
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| telescope | an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses.
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| universe | everything that exists
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| planet | a large object in space that orbits
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| revolve | move in a circle on a central axis.
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| rotate | move or cause to move in a circle around an axis or center.
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| solar energy | energy from the sunlight
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| constellation | a group of star that from a pattern
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| atmosphere | a layer of gases that surrounds earth and other planets
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| comet | a frozen mass of ice and dust orbiting the sun
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| lunar eclipse | an eclipse in which the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth's shadow.
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| solar eclipse | an eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon.
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| elliptical | (of speech or writing) using or involving ellipsis, esp. so as to be difficult to understand.
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| galaxy | a huge system of stars dust and gas held together by gravity
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| solstice | either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.
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| asteroid | a rocky mass up several to hundred kilometer wide that revolves around the sun
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| satellite | an object in orbit around another object
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