The Solar System

3. sun, planets, and all the other objects that revolve around the sun
7. A unit of length used for distances within the solar system equal to the average distance between the earth and the sun
10. An object that orbits the sun and is spherical, but has not cleared the area of its orbit.
11. a small rocky body orbiting the sun
12. A natural satellite that revolves around a planet.
13. A meteoroid that has entered Earth's atmosphere.
14. The star at the center of our solar system
16. A ball of frozen dust and rock that orbits the sun and has a tail that glows

1. The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion
2. the region around a star in which planets could potentially have surface temperatures at which liquid water could exist
4. The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space
5. A large body in space that orbits a star and does not produce light of its own
6. A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system.
8. a spherical region that surrounds the solar system, that extends from the Kuiper Belt to almost halfway to the nearest star, and that contains billions of comets
9. the makeup of something
15. a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, believed to contain many comets, asteroids, and other small bodies made largely of ice.