Space Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. the path an object takes as it revolves around something
  2. 5. a body of rock and metal that orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter
  3. 7. the spinning of a planet on its axis creating day and night
  4. 8. a body of ice, dust, and frozen gas that orbits the sun and has a tail
  5. 10. the only star in our solar system
  6. 11. a body of rock that orbits a planet
Down
  1. 2. a planet going around the sun to create a year
  2. 3. a large body of rock or gas that orbits the sun
  3. 4. the imaginary line that goes from north pole to south pole
  4. 6. our home planet
  5. 9. the imaginary line that separates the northern and southern hemispheres