Solar System Vocab-
Across
- 1. a ball of frozen dust and rock that orbits the sun and has a tail that glows
- 3. An elongated circle, stretched into an oval
- 5. a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of neptune, believed to contain many comets, asteroids and other small bodies made largely of ice
- 7. area around a star that life can exist
- 9. the spinning of Earth on its axis
- 10. a natural satellite that revolves around a planet
- 13. The sun, the planets and their moons, and other objects that move around the sun.
- 14. a streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere
- 15. a spherical shell of celestial bodies believed to surround the Sun far beyond the orbits of the outermost planets
Down
- 2. organism that grows under extreme or harsh conditions
- 4. The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space
- 6. any planet outside our solar system
- 8. the tendency of an object to resist a change in motion
- 9. the movement of an object around another object
- 11. An object that orbits a star, is large enough to have become nearly spherical in shape, and has no other large object in its orbital path
- 12. a small rocky body orbiting the Sun