Chapter 8 Vocabulary By Hannah Stephens

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Across
  1. 5. Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus,or Neptune.
  2. 9. The clockwise spin of the planets or their moon or moons
  3. 10. a meteoroid that reaches the Earth's surface without burning up completely.
  4. 12. a relatively small,rocky body that travels through space.
  5. 13. a small,rocky object that orbits the sun usually in a band between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
  6. 14. an event in which the shadow of one celestial body falls on another.
Down
  1. 1. The Average distance between Earth and the sun.
  2. 2. The counterclockwise spin of the planets or their moon or moons.
  3. 3. the change in the sunlit area of one celestial body.
  4. 4. The region of the solar system that is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and in which most asteroids orbit.
  5. 6. Mercury,Venus,Mars,Earth.
  6. 7. a natural or artificial body that revolves around a planet.
  7. 8. a small body of ice,rock,and Cosmic dust that follows an elliptical orbit around the sun and that gives off gas and dust in the form of a tail.
  8. 11. a bright streak of light that results when a meteoroid burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.