Space vocabulary
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gravity | the pulling force between two objects
🗑
|
||||
| rotation | the spinning motion of an objects on its axis
🗑
|
||||
| revolution | the movement of an object around another object
🗑
|
||||
| solar system | the sun, planets/dwarf planets and their moons, asteroids, comets, and meteors
🗑
|
||||
| galaxy | group of billions of stars and their planets, gas, dust that extends over many thousands of light-years that is held together by gravity.
🗑
|
||||
| Milky Way | the galaxy that contains our solar system
🗑
|
||||
| universe | all the galaxies, matter, and energy
🗑
|
||||
| sun | average size star, no solid surface, made of hydrogen and helium gases
🗑
|
||||
| nuclear fusion | the process by which hydrogen atoms join together to form helium.
🗑
|
||||
| prominences | loops of gases on the sun that link different sunspots
🗑
|
||||
| axis | the imaginary lint that runs through the north and south poles
🗑
|
||||
| spring tides | when the sun and moon are aligned, causing strong gravitational pull and very high and very low tides
🗑
|
||||
| neap tides | when the sun and moon are not aligned, the gravitational forces cancel each other out, and the tides are neither very high or very low
🗑
|
||||
| comet | a ball of ice and dust whose orbit around the sun is a long, narrow ellipse
🗑
|
||||
| asteroids | rocky objects that revolve around the sun, but are too small to be considered planets
🗑
|
||||
| meteroids | chunks of rock or dust in space
🗑
|
||||
| meteor | a meteroid that is burning up in the Earth's mesosphere
🗑
|
||||
| meteororites | meteoroids that pass through the atmosphere and hit Earth's surface
🗑
|
||||
| new moon | sun lights the moon facing away from Earth. The side of the moon facing Earth is dark
🗑
|
||||
| waxing crescent | the moon appears as a sliver or crescent of light
🗑
|
||||
| first quarter | half the lighted side of the moon
🗑
|
||||
| waxing gibbous | the lighted side of the moon with more than half of it lighted
🗑
|
||||
| full moon | the whole moon is lit
🗑
|
||||
| waning gibbous | the fraction of the lighted side of the moon decreases
🗑
|
||||
| last quarter | half of the moon is lit
🗑
|
||||
| waning crescent | there is less and less of the lighted side of the moon visible and then it appears again as a crescent
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
Susan_Johnson
Popular Physical Science sets