Solar System Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. relating to the land
  2. 4. the shape the moon seems to have at a given time, takes 29.5 days
  3. 7. Scientists who study the solar system and outer space
  4. 8. a giant ball of hot, glowing gases that release energy
  5. 10. the sun, the eight planets and their moons, and other objects that revolve the sun
  6. 11. spinning of a planet, moon or star around its axis
  7. 12. a large, ball shaped body that revolves or travels around the sun
  8. 13. a shape that is like a circle stretched out in opposite directions
Down
  1. 1. patterns of stars in the sky
  2. 3. movement of one object around another
  3. 5. A device built to observe distant objects by making them appear closer
  4. 6. a small rocky body orbiting the sun
  5. 9. an instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north