Blue belt Flashcards
(15 cards)
A large system of stars held together by mutual gravitation and isolated from systems held together by similar systems of vast regions by space
galaxy
The galaxy containing our solar system
milky way
A large body in space that orbits a star and does not produce its own light
planet
An object that is found in the solar system, orbits the sun, and is much smaller than a planet.
Asteroid
A system of planets and other bodies that orbit a star.
solar system
a natural object {satellite} that orbits a planet.
moon
an object made of rock, ice, dust, and gas that revolves around the sun
comet
the path that one object in space takes around another object in space.
orbit
The motion of one object around another object
revolution
The turning of an object on its axis
rotation
An imaginary line that passes through earth’s center from the north pole to the south pole.
axis
the process by which rock, soil and other weathered earth materials are moved from one place to another.
Erosion
The process by which rocks are broken down
weathering
Half of the earth {northern, southern, eastern, western}
hemisphere
a large object in space that is made of gas and produces its own light.
star
