Cycles in the Solar System Vocabulary

What is the name for the moon's shapes as we view them from Earth?

Chunk of rock that orbits the sun and is smaller than an asteroid.

The angle that a planet is tilted from a vertical position.

MOON: phase in which half the moon's lit side is visible after the waning gibbous moon.

Path an object follows as it revolves around another object

System of planets revolving around a star.

Measurement equal to the distance between Earth and the sun.

An oval path that looks a little like a flattened circle.

Movement of one object in an orbit around another object

This is a chunk of rock and metal that orbits the sun.

A ball of ice, rock, and frozen gases that orbits the sun is called

MOON: phase in which half the moon's lit side is visible after the waxing crescent moon.

Period  of the year with a certain level of temperature and type of weather.

The turning or spinning of a planet on its axis is called

Imaginary line through the Earth's center, from the North Pole to the South Pole.