Solar System Crossword - Abbie Godfrey

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Across
  1. 5. outer planet; 10 times larger in diameter than Earth
  2. 6. brightest object in sky after sun and moon
  3. 7. a ways of describing Venus'rotation
  4. 9. largest moon in our solar system
  5. 10. sun - when cleaning up solar system (two words)
  6. 14. satellites that by their gravitational attractions prevent particles in a planet’s rings from spreading out and dispersing (two words)
Down
  1. 1. the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet.
  2. 2. small planet like bodies
  3. 3. surrounds the solar system and is in rough spherical shape (two words)
  4. 4. largest asteroid
  5. 8. a condition in which the repetitive motion of one body interacts with the repetitive motion of another so as to reinforce the motion.
  6. 11. dark band in a Jovian planet’s atmosphere, encircling the planet. Gas in the belts appears to be descending and warming.
  7. 12. Russian spacecraft that landed on Venus
  8. 13. smaller than the sun and emit no visible light of their own
  9. 15. steep cliffs on Mercury's surface that span thousands of kilometers