Across
- 4. an eruption of gas from the sun's surface that occurs when the loops in sunspot regions suddenly connect.
- 5. earth's only natural satellite.
- 7. term describing a model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.
- 9. seventh planet from the sun.
- 11. the spinning motion of a planet on its axis.
- 12. morning star.
- 13. an imaginary line that passes through a planet's center and its north and south poles, about which the planet rotates.
- 14. an object that orbits a star, is large enough to have become rounded by its own gravity, and has cleared area of its orbit.
- 17. the central region of the sun, where nuclear fusion takes place.
- 20. the blue planet.
- 22. the largest planet in the solar system.
- 24. the middle layer of the sun's atmosphere.
- 25. this is the largest moon of.
- 26. the red planet.
- 27. our galaxy.
- 28. the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere.
- 29. distance traveled by light in a vacuum in one tropical year.
Down
- 1. a region of very tightly packed gas in the sun's interior where energy is transferred mainly in the form of electromagnetic radiation.
- 2. the trapping of heat near a planet's surface by certain gases in the planet's atmosphere.
- 3. term describing a model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars.
- 4. a stream of electrically charged particles that emanate from the sun's corona.
- 6. the inner layer of the sun's atmosphere that gives off its visible light; the sun's surface.
- 8. the path of an object as it revolves around another object in space.
- 10. a dark area of gas on the sun's surface that is cooler than surrounding gases.
- 15. shape of the planet orbits.
- 16. smaller bodies in orbit around the sun.
- 18. the name often given to the four inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
- 19. the star at the center of the solar system.
- 20. the process in which two atomic nuclei combine to form a larger nucleus, forming a heavier element and releasing huge amounts of energy; the process by which energy is produced in stars.
- 21. smallest planet in the solar system.
- 23. the outermost layer of the sun's interior.
