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Homework:
Copy vocabulary words and study them for weekly quiz.
1.asteroids - space rocks
smaller than planets. Many are found between Mars and Jupiter.
2. atmosphere - a layer of
gases surrounding a planet
3. axis - An imaginary
straight line on which an object rotates.
4. comets - One of the
small, icy bodies that orbit the sun that make tails of gas and dust when they
get close to the sun
5. Copernicus - Proved
that the sun is the center of the solar system
6. density - the amount of
matter a given space
7. tilt - This causes
Earth's seasons
8. eclipse - when one
space object blocks the sun from reaching another.
9. ellipse - an oval
shape.
10. full moon - a moon
phase in which the entire face of the moon is visible,
11. inner planets - a
planet whose orbit lies within the asteroid belt, i.e., Mercury, Venus, Earth,
or Mars.
12. outer planets - a planet whose orbit lies outside the asteroid belt, i.e., Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune
12. outer planets - a planet whose orbit lies outside the asteroid belt, i.e., Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune
