The Solar System
Across
- 2. The second planet from the Sun and Earth's closest planetary neighbor.
- 5. The fifth planet from our Sun, the largest planet in the solar system.
- 7. The smallest planet in our solar system.
- 9. Cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun.
- 12. The sixth planet from the Sun and the second and the largest planet in our solar system.
- 13. The seventh planet from the Sun and the third-largest diameter in our solar system.
Down
- 1. A hot ball of glowing gases at the heart of our solar system.
- 3. Any celestial body in space that orbits around a larger body.
- 4. The planet we inhabit.
- 6. The eighth planet from the Sun at a distance of about 2.8 billion miles.
- 8. Small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun.
- 10. The fourth planet from the Sun – a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere.
- 11. A dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt.