Space Systems
Across
- 3. The four planets that reside within the asteroid belt (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) also known as the rocky planets
- 5. this planet has a big storm called the red spot
- 7. gravity depends on an objects....
- 8. a force of attraction that pulls objects toward one another
- 9. a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star.
- 10. the star at the center of our solar system; also the closest star to our solar system
- 11. only planet NOT named after a mythological being
- 12. the force of gravity on an object
- 13. a regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another object.
- 14. this planet takes the longest to orbit the sun
- 15. a large ball of bright, glowing plasma that is held together by its own gravity
Down
- 1. The four planets that reside outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) also known as the gas planets
- 2. smallest planet
- 4. small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun, between Mars and Jupiter
- 6. person who discovered gravity
- 7. this gas makes uranus blue-green
- 10. the flattest planet