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Name: Class: Date: Teacher: Solar System Words What gets wetter while it dries? A towel! Green 1. meteorite a piece of rock from outer space that has reached earth 2. space the area beyond earth; place where planets and stars are found 3. orbit another word for revolve or go around 4. Saturn Gas giant; sixth planet from the sun; has rings made of rocks and dust 5. Mars known as the red planet; fourth from the sun 6. Pluto used to be an outer planet; now a dwarf planet 7. asteroid space rock that orbits the sun; mainly seen between Mars and Jupiter called the _____________ Belt 8. stars distant suns (suns that are far away) are called this 9. telescope an instrument used for looking at distant objects in space 10. Milky Way the name given to our galaxy - bring a straw 11. Uranus a blue outer planet; known as a gas giant: rotates on its side 12. Venus inner planet that spins the other way; second closest to the sun 13. constellation name used to describe a group of stars seen from earth that form a pattern or a picture - like the Big Dipper 14. Mercury inner planet that is very hot and cold; closest to the sun 15. Earth we live on this inner planet; third from the sun 16. solar having to do with the sun 17. sun a ball of hot glowing gases; a star if its far away 18. solar system all the planets that orbit just our sun is called this 19. Neptune Gas giant; blue outer planet furthest from the sun: very cold and windy 20. moon this object orbits around the earth; astronauts have landed on it Schoolhouse Technologies Vocabulary Worksheet Factory