Our Solar System Crossword Puzzle; by: Emily H. Boggs

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Across
  1. 3. This happens when a planet's atmosphere traps solar energy and causes the surface temperature to increase
  2. 4. The time it takes an object in space to travel once around the Sun
  3. 7. The time it takes an object in space to spin a full rotation on its axis
  4. 8. The average distance from Earth to the Sun
  5. 10. The four largest of Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto
  6. 11. a meteoroid that strikes a planet, moon, or any other space object by the impact of a meteorite
Down
  1. 1. Millons of small, rocky, objects that orbit the sun in a belt of themselves between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
  2. 2. Inner,rocky planets
  3. 5. a streak of light in Earth's atmosphere made by meteoroid streaking through our atmosphere
  4. 6. This is made of gas, dust, and ice and orbits around the sun in an oval shape
  5. 9. a small rocky particle that moves through space