Space
Across
- 4. a small, dense, rocky planet similar to Earth (4 inner planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars)
- 7. mixture of gases that surround a planet
- 8. a small, rocky body that revolves around the sun
- 9. a force which tries to pull two objects toward each other
- 10. a natural satellite of a planet
- 11. a large, gaseous planet of the outer solar system with no known solid surface (4 outer planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)
- 13. a body in space that lacks one or more characteristics of a planet
- 15. the motion of a planet as it travels in orbit around the Sun
- 17. a meteoroid that reaches Earth's surface/ground without burning up completely; it takes the 'right' path to Earth
Down
- 1. body that orbits around the Sun or a star and does not produce its own light
- 2. a bright streak of light caused when a meteoroid or comet dust burns up in the atmosphere (people call it a 'shooting star' but it's not)
- 3. a very small, rocky body; mini asteroid
- 5. a medium sized star; the center of our solar system
- 6. the average distance between Earth and the Sun
- 12. the spin of an object in space
- 14. the elliptical path an object takes in space while revolving around another object
- 16. a small body of ice, rock and cosmic dust loosely packed together