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6th Grade STEM: The Solar System - Vocabulary
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6th Grade STEM: The Solar System - Vocabulary
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1. A push or a pull

2. the lighter part of a shadow where light is partially blocked

3. Occurs when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth and casts a shadow over part of Earth

4. The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion

5. A sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface

6. the large, dark, flat areas on the Moon

7. The outer layer of the sun's atmosphere.

8. An imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and the North and South poles, about which Earth rotates

9. the innermost geologic layer of the planet Earth - very hot, very dense

10. a planet that has a deep, massive atmosphere, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune

11. Chunks of rock or dust from space

12. A huge, reddish loop of gas that protrudes from the sun's surface, linking parts of sunspot regions.

13. An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

14. The name given to the four inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

15. the very darkest part of the moon's shadow

16. the different shapes of the moon you see from Earth

17. the force of gravity on an object

18. The outermost layer of the sun's interior where hot gases rise from the bottom

19. The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space (ie - the sun)

20. A thin disk of small ice and rock particles surrounding a planet.

21. A device built to observe distant objects by making them appear closer

22. The movement of an object around another object

23. A force that pulls objects toward each other, a force that pulls the moon towards the earth

24. The middle layer of the sun's atmosphere

25. warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere

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