Relier Pairs Space exploration glossaryVersion en ligne Use this game to review the words we've been practising in Science class. par Neus Vinyallonga 1 Telescope 2 Landing 3 Rocket 4 Spacecraft 5 Gravity 6 Bright 7 Astronomy 8 Comet 9 Natural satellite 10 Planet 11 Star 12 Asteroid 13 Shooting star 14 Dwarf planet 15 Thesis An extremely large, round mass of rock, such as Earth, or of gas, such as Jupiter, that moves in a circular path around the Sun or another star: Used to send spacecrafts or artificial satellites to the space. Document similar to a book that groups all the important information about some investigation. Specially related to college (university). a natural object moving around a planet in the space. Example: Moon, Europe, Callisto, Science that studies all the celestial bodies in space. A rock that circles the Sun. Example: Kuiper's belt. A vehicle used to travel in space (synonym of spaceship) Device or tool for making objects that are far away look closer and larger. Used to investigate the outter space. A very small planet. A very large ball of gas in space that is usually seen from the Earth as a point of light in the sky at night. Examples: Sun, Polaris and Alfa Centaury. Invisible force that attracts us to the center of the Earth. Verb referred to an airplane or a spacecraft arriving on the ground. Piece of ice that circles the Sun and every certain years can be seen from Earth. Adjective related to the amount of light an object has. A piece of rock or ice from space that produces a bright light as it travels through the Earth's atmosphere.