Matching Pairs Solar System Blue VocabularyOnline version This is for practice with the blue set of solar system vocabulary words. by Anne Ambrosio 1 Smaller chunks of rock and metal have broken off from a comet or asteroid. 2 Large chunks of rock and metal that orbit and tumble around the sun. 3 Meteors that have been pulled towards Earth and burn up in the atmosphere. 4 Elliptical path Earth takes around the sun. It takes 365 days or 1 year. 5 Large disc shaped grouping of over 200 billion stars that spins and is suspended in space . Our solar system is part of this. 6 Large star that provides light and warmth to the Earth. 7 Largest collection of asteroids scientists have found. It is located between Jupiter and Mars. 8 Large groups of ice, dust and metal that orbit the sun and has a tail tail. 9 Imaginary line that goes through the center of a planet from top to bottom. 10 Round like planets, but orbit a planet instead of the sun.
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