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WW4 unit 5 vocabulary practice space

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  • The furthest planet from Earth:
    Neptune
  • a giant star :
    Sun
  • The smallest satellite is called:
    a cube satellite
  • The first astronaut was:
    Yuri Gagarin
  • a huge group of many millions of stars and solar systems:
    galaxy
  • a curved path around a planet, star, or moon:
    orbit
  • a giant space ‘snowball’ of gas, rock, and dust with a long tail:
    comet
  • a device used to observe distant objects:
    telescope
  • The moon is about 384,000 km _______ .
    away
  • the closest planet to Earth:
    Venus
  • The largest planet is:
    Jupiter
  • the group of planets and stars around our sun:
    solar system
  • the force that makes objects fall to the ground
    gravity
  • Mars is millions of kilometres ________ .
    AWAY
  • Their _______ is 11,000 kilometres per hour.
    SPEED
  • an electronic system in space for communication:
    satellite