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