Space

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Across
  1. 3. A ball of frozen dust and rock that orbits the sun and has a tail that glows
  2. 9. to go around something in a circle; to turn around in a circle
  3. 10. The name often given to the four inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
  4. 13. A region of the solar system that is just beyond the orbit of Neptune and that contains small bodies made mostly of ice
  5. 15. a celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such.
  6. 16. sun, planets, and all the other objects that revolve around the sun
  7. 17. A chunk of rock or dust in space, generally smaller than an asteroid.
  8. 18. closest planet to the sun; shortest period of revolution (88 days
  9. 19. Earth's twin due to similar density, mass size, and gravity
  10. 20. a rotating cloud of gas and dust from which the sun and planets formed
Down
  1. 1. Occurs when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth and casts a shadow over part of Earth
  2. 2. a meteroid that passes through the atmosphere and hits earths surface
  3. 4. A natural satellite that revolves around a planet.
  4. 5. the very darkest part of the moon's shadow
  5. 6. the lighter part of a shadow where light is partially blocked
  6. 7. A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere.
  7. 8. Large, gaseous planets that are very cold at their surfaces, have ring systems, many moons, and lack solid surfaces—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  8. 11. to spin on an axis
  9. 12. The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space
  10. 14. the blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and the moon