Topic 5 Pt. 1

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Across
  1. 4. - A loose collection of ice and dust that orbits the sun, typically in a long, narrow orbit
  2. 8. - The movement of an object around another object (1 year)
  3. 9. - The spinning motion of a planet on its axis (1 day)
  4. 10. - An imaginary line that passes through a planet’s center and its north and south poles, about which the planet rotates.
  5. 11. - Either of the two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance from the equator
  6. 12. - A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth’s atmosphere
  7. 13. - The shape that the planets orbit; oval
  8. 14. - An object that orbits a star and has cleared the area of its orbit.
  9. 15. - The term describing a model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun
Down
  1. 1. - Information or data that is gathered using one of the 5 senses
  2. 2. - The term describing a model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and starts
  3. 3. - A ball of hot gas that undergoes nuclear fusion
  4. 5. - An object that orbits a planet
  5. 6. - A pattern of grouping of stars that people imagine to represent a figure or object
  6. 7. - The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space