Space

3. A piece of rock that travels around the sun.
4. The path of an object as I travels around a large object
7. The imaginary straight line around which a planet rotates.
8. One of the two times during Earth's revolution when the sun is directly overhead in the sky at the equator.
10. That four planets in the solar system that are farthest from the sun. Also known as the "gas Giants"
11. A blanket of gases that surrounds a planet or a moon
14. The two days of the year when the sun is either the farthest north or south of the Equator.
15. A very large group of stars in space.
16. The movement of an object in a complete path around another object. Earth's revolution around the sun takes one year or 365 1/4 days.

1. The motion of a planet as it turns on its axis. Earth's rotation takes 24 hours and causes day and night.
2. A huge ball of glowing gas in space. It is at the cneter of our solar system.
3. A blanket of gases that surrounds a planet or moon
5. The temporary blocking of the sun's light as the moon passes between the moon and sun.
6. An oval shaped orbit
9. The darkening hiding of the moon when it passes through Earth's shadow. Lunar eclipses happen at night
12. system A star and all of the objects that move around it
13. A small rocky or metal object that orbits the sun