Solar System Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Mid-sized star at the center of the solar system
  2. 6. Flares, Eruptions caused by energy that heats plasma on the sun to millions of degrees Celsius
  3. 10. System, Consists of the sun, the planets, their moons, and a variety of smaller objects
  4. 11. The outer layer of the sun
  5. 14. Something that is round, orbits the sun, and has cleared out the region of the solar system along its orbit
  6. 15. Huge loops of plasma that are polarized
  7. 16. Chunks of rock or dust smaller than asteroids
  8. 17. Earth- centered model
Down
  1. 1. Areas of plasma that are cooler than the plasma around them
  2. 3. Planet, Objects that orbit the sun, but cannot clear objects in their orbit
  3. 4. Sun-centered model
  4. 5. The inner layer of the sun
  5. 7. a unique trait or characteristic
  6. 8. of Universal Gravitation Every object in the universe attracts every other object.
  7. 9. Wind, Streams of electrically charged particles from the corona
  8. 12. The force that attracts all objects toward each other
  9. 13. Better known as a natural satellite