Solar System 6th Grade

5. The movement of an object around another object
6. A meteoroid that passes through the atmosphere and hits Earth's surface.
8. A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere.
11. A force that pulls objects toward each other
13. Attraction the force of attraction between all masses in the universe
15. orbit An orbit in the shape of an oval instead of a circle
17. planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune. Called Gas Giants.

1. the makeup of something
2. The spinning motion of a planet on its axis
3. planets the planets closest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
4. balls of ice, rock, and dust in space with a tail
6. a relatively small, rocky body that travels through space
7. The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space
9. An object that revolves around another object in space
10. a natural object that revolves around a planet
12. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
14. An imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and the North and South poles, about which Earth rotates
16. rocky metallic objects that orbit the sun but are too small to be considered planets