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Solar System Terms Everyone Can Learn

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Question 1 of 20Space & AstronomyWhat term describes the path an object follows around another object?
Question 2 of 20Space & AstronomyAstronomers call a natural object traveling around a planet...
Question 3 of 20Space & AstronomyName the Solar System term for a small rocky object orbiting the Sun.
Question 4 of 20Space & AstronomyComplete the astronomy match: an icy object that can grow a tail near the Sun —...
Question 5 of 20Space & AstronomyWhich concept fits a rocky object entering Earth's atmosphere?
Question 6 of 20Space & AstronomyWhat term describes the streak of light produced in the atmosphere?
Question 7 of 20Space & AstronomyAstronomers call a space rock that reaches the ground...
Question 8 of 20Space & AstronomyName the Solar System term for a nearly round object orbiting the Sun that has not cleared its neighborhood.
Question 9 of 20Space & AstronomyComplete the astronomy match: the region of many rocky bodies between Mars and Jupiter —...
Question 10 of 20Space & AstronomyWhich concept fits the icy region beyond Neptune containing Pluto?
Question 11 of 20Space & AstronomyWhat term describes the distant proposed shell of long-period comet sources?
Question 12 of 20Space & AstronomyAstronomers call the point in an orbit closest to the Sun...
Question 13 of 20Space & AstronomyName the Solar System term for the point in an orbit farthest from the Sun.
Question 14 of 20Space & AstronomyComplete the astronomy match: the spinning of an object around its axis —...
Question 15 of 20Space & AstronomyWhich concept fits one complete journey around another object?
Question 16 of 20Space & AstronomyWhat term describes the imaginary line through a rotating body's poles?
Question 17 of 20Space & AstronomyAstronomers call the plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun...
Question 18 of 20Space & AstronomyName the Solar System term for a point where an object's orbit crosses a reference plane.
Question 19 of 20Space & AstronomyComplete the astronomy match: a system's central star and all objects bound to it —...
Question 20 of 20Space & AstronomyWhich concept fits the gravitational boundary dominated by the Sun?

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