Exploring the solar system
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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| a piece of rock from space that burns from entering the earth's atmosphere | meteor
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| celestial body that orbits the sun but is not considered a planet or satellite | dwarf planet
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| any object natural of manufactured that orbits another object | satellite
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| any vehicle piloted or unpiloted designed to travel beyond earth's atmosphere | spacecraft
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| a scientist who studies objects and events beyond Earth's atmosphere such as the composition | Astronomer
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| the study of objects and events beyond Earth's atmosphere | Astromony
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| a "dirty snowball" of ice and dust that orbits the sun. Comets appear to have a fuzzy head and a long tail that streams away from the sun. | comet
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| an object that orbits a star and is larger than an asteroid and smaller than a star | planet
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| a body of gas sufficiently compressed by its own gravity for nuclear fusion to take place. The nuclear fusion creates the light, heat, and other radioation associated with stars. | star
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| a group of billions of stars | galaxy
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| the sun and all the objects, including Earth, that orbits the sun | solar system
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| a unit of measurement equal to the distance between earth and the sun approximately 150,000,000 km. | astronomical unit
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| a push or a pull due to gravity | gravitational force
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| the attractive force that occurs between any two objects | gravity
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| a measure of the material contained in an object | mass
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| irregularly shaped rocky object that orbits the sun | astroid
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| any object natural or manufactured that orbits another object | satellite
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| any vehicle piloted or unpiloted designed to travel beyond Earth's atmosphere | spacecraft
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| a device used to view or obtain information about distant objects | telescope
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