Across
- 4. - A loose collection of ice and dust that orbits the sun, typically in a long, narrow orbit
- 8. - The movement of an object around another object (1 year)
- 9. - The spinning motion of a planet on its axis (1 day)
- 10. - An imaginary line that passes through a planet’s center and its north and south poles, about which the planet rotates.
- 11. - Either of the two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance from the equator
- 12. - A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth’s atmosphere
- 13. - The shape that the planets orbit; oval
- 14. - An object that orbits a star and has cleared the area of its orbit.
- 15. - The term describing a model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun
Down
- 1. - Information or data that is gathered using one of the 5 senses
- 2. - The term describing a model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and starts
- 3. - A ball of hot gas that undergoes nuclear fusion
- 5. - An object that orbits a planet
- 6. - A pattern of grouping of stars that people imagine to represent a figure or object
- 7. - The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space