Solar System Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A grouping of gas, dust, and many stars, plus any objects that orbit those stars
  2. 4. A chunk of rock or metal from space that falls through the atmosphere, or layer of gases, surrounding Earth
  3. 7. The star at the center of our solar system; medium size star with medium temperature
  4. 8. A large, round body in space that orbits the Sun; there are 8 in our solar system
  5. 9. An object made of frozen gases, rock, ice, and dust that orbits the Sun, found mostly in the region between Mars and Jupiter (asteroid belt)
  6. 13. An object that is spherical in shape, orbits the Sun, is not a satellite, and has not cleared the area of its orbit of smaller debris
  7. 15. An imaginary line that passes through Earth's center
  8. 16. To spin on an axis
  9. 17. Everything that exists
  10. 18. phases The changing appearances of the Moon as seen from Earth
  11. 19. A huge ball of very hot gases in space
Down
  1. 1. The revolving of one object around another in an oval-shaped path; all 8 planets travel in this type of orbit
  2. 3. A pattern of stars, named after a mythological or religious figure, an object, or an animal
  3. 4. Any natural body that revolves around a planet; also known as a "satelite"
  4. 5. An icy chunk of frozen gases, water, and dust that continually orbits the sun
  5. 6. The Sun, the planets and other objects that orbit the Sun
  6. 10. An imaginary line around Earth equally distant from the North and South Poles
  7. 11. The path one body takes in space as it revolves around another body
  8. 12. The force that pulls objects toward one another and keeps objects in orbit
  9. 14. To travel in a closed path