Solar System

1. Our solar system is part of this galaxy
2. Planet named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty
6. A planet with large rings around it that is sixth from the Sun.
8. The Blue planet
10. The Earth____ on its axis
13. Closest star to Earth
14. A single turn of something around an axis or a fixed point; spinning.
18. Now called a dwarf planet
19. A single journey along an orbital path. It takes Earth 365 1/4 days to do this around the sun.
20. Layer of gas that surrounds a planet
22. Distance traveled by light in a vacuum in one tropical year
23. The Earth is the ______ planet from the Sun

1. A small reddish planet that is fourth from the Sun; a terrestrial planet,
3. A large blue-green planet that is seventh from the Sun
4. must be round, orbit the sun, and have cleared the region of the solar system along its orbit
5. Covers 70 percent of the Earth's surface
7. Planet farthest from the sun
9. Force that keeps a planet moving in orbit
11. small bodies formed by rock and ice
12. Smaller bodies in orbit around the Sun
15. Caused by the Gravitational pull of the sun and moon on the Earth
16. Largest planet in the Solar System
17. Earth's only natural satellite
21. This means to revolve around another object. Our Moon does this to Earth.