vocabulary - science - Lesson 5

any object that orbits another larger body in space

an apparent change in the Moon's shape

a hollow area in the ground

the Sun and all the objects that orbit the Sun

any of the nine large bodies that orbit the Sun. In order from the Sun outward, they are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto

a huge, hot sphere of gases, like that Sun, that gives off its own light

a tool that gathers light to make faraway objects appear closer

a curved piece of glass (an object that transmits and refracts light)