Lesson 4: The Planets Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. the seventh planet from the sun and has a blue-green color.
  2. 6. the third planet from the sun and where water exists as a solid, liquid, or a gas.
  3. 8. the planet closest to the sun
  4. 10. planets that are primarily made of ice and gas.
  5. 12. measure the distance between the objects in the solar system.
  6. 13. the largest planet in the solar system and fifth from the sun
Down
  1. 1. the second planet from the sun and similar in size to Earth.
  2. 2. planets that orbit outside the asteroid belt.
  3. 3. planets that orbit between the sun and the asteroid belt.
  4. 5. the fourth planet from the sun and called the red planet
  5. 7. planets that are made mainly of rocky material
  6. 9. the eighth planet from the sun and has a frozen surface of nitrogen
  7. 11. the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest in the solar system