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- 2. Made of gas, dust, and ice and moves around the Sun in an oval-shaped orbit.
- 4. Your favorite 8th grade science teacher's last name.
- 6. The 6th planet from the Sun.
- 7. An elongated, closed curve.
- 8. When Earth or the Moon casts a shadow on the other.
- 9. The oldest, most highly-cratered regions on the Moon
- 11. __ magnitude is the measure of the amount of light a star gives off.
- 12. This celestial object orbits the Earth from an average distance of about 238,000 miles.
- 14. The day when Earth's rotation axis is leaning along Earth's orbit
- 15. The smallest planet in our solar system.
- 16. Debris left by colliding asteroids or dispersing comets.
- 19. A reddish glow around the Sun.
- 21. The type of heat transfer we receive from the Sun.
- 25. __ magnitude is the measure of the amount of light received on Earth.
- 27. Patterns of stars in the night sky.
- 28. A big ball of gas that gives off light and heat through nuclear fusion.
- 29. The day when Earth's rotation axis is the most toward or away from the Sun
- 30. The largest planet in our solar system.
- 32. Another name for the outer planets.
- 33. 93,000,000 miles.
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- 1. Earth takes 365.24 days to make one full __ around the Sun.
- 3. The distance that light travels in one year.
- 5. The Sun is the center of the solar system.
- 10. The Earth is the center of the solar system.
- 13. The closest start to Earth.
- 16. Dark, flat areas formed from lava 3-4 billion years ago.
- 17. The layer of the Sun we see; the visible surface of the Sun.
- 18. This light blue planet that spins on its side.
- 20. Pluto is a __ planet.
- 21. The Earth takes 24 hours to make one full __ on its axis.
- 22. The planet home to the largest volcano, Olympus Mons.
- 23. The Sun is classified as a __ dwarf.
- 24. The outermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere
- 26. Saturn's largest moon.
- 31. Huge group of single stars, star systems, star clusters, dust, and gas bound together by gravity.