Characteristics of the Solar System
Across
- 1. The fouth planet from the sun
- 5. A natural satellite that orbits a planet
- 9. The third planet from the sun and the only planet in the solar system where life exist.
- 10. Earthlike or things that are of the land
- 11. The galaxy that contains our solar system
- 12. The second planet from the sun
Down
- 2. The star around which the planets revolve, from which they receive heat and light.
- 3. A celestial body of ice, dust and rocks with an elongated and elliptical orbit.
- 4. Large or small rocks or metallic masses orbiting the sun; make up the materials similar to those that form the planets.
- 6. The path one object takes as it revolves around another object in space
- 7. The closest planet to the sun
- 8. A large group of stars held together by gravitation and separated from other groups of stars by large region of space