Vocabulary of Parts of the Solar System
Across
- 3. To move around another object
- 4. A big, round object in space that moves around the Sun
- 7. The system made of the Sun and everything that moves around it
- 9. A huge group of stars and planets held together by gravity
- 11. The force that pulls objects together in space
- 12. The star at the center of our solar system
Down
- 1. The name of the North Star
- 2. A star that stays in the same place in the sky
- 5. An object that moves around a planet
- 6. Earth spins once every one of these
- 8. The galaxy our solar system is in
- 10. A tool that shows days, months, and years
- 12. The movement Earth makes to create day and night