Space vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
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| show | the pulling force between two objects
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| rotation | show 🗑
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| revolution | show 🗑
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| solar system | show 🗑
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| show | group of billions of stars and their planets, gas, dust that extends over many thousands of light-years that is held together by gravity.
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| show | the galaxy that contains our solar system
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| universe | show 🗑
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| show | average size star, no solid surface, made of hydrogen and helium gases
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| nuclear fusion | show 🗑
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| show | loops of gases on the sun that link different sunspots
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| show | the imaginary lint that runs through the north and south poles
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| spring tides | show 🗑
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| neap tides | show 🗑
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| show | a ball of ice and dust whose orbit around the sun is a long, narrow ellipse
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| show | rocky objects that revolve around the sun, but are too small to be considered planets
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| show | chunks of rock or dust in space
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| meteor | show 🗑
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| show | meteoroids that pass through the atmosphere and hit Earth's surface
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| show | sun lights the moon facing away from Earth. The side of the moon facing Earth is dark
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| show | the moon appears as a sliver or crescent of light
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| show | half the lighted side of the moon
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| show | the lighted side of the moon with more than half of it lighted
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| show | the whole moon is lit
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| waning gibbous | show 🗑
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| last quarter | show 🗑
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| show | there is less and less of the lighted side of the moon visible and then it appears again as a crescent
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