Vocab

2. one of the rocky objects in space revolving around the sun that are too small and too numerous to be considered planets
7. term describing a model of the universe in which earth is at the center if the solar system
8. a region where many small objects orbit the sun and that stretches from beyond the orbit of Neptune to about 100 times the earth's distance from the sun
10. a loop of gas connecting to sunspots
12. a spherical region of comets that surrounds the solar system
13. the middle layer of the suns atmosphere
14. the layer of the sun that lays just outside its core
17. one of the building blocks that formed the planets
18. term describing a model of the universe in which the sun is in the middle of the solar system
20. the name given to the outer planets

1. the inner layer of the suns atmosphere that gives off its visible light; the suns surface
3. an object that orbits the sun that has not cleared its area of orbit
4. a meteor that passes the atmosphere and hits earths surface
5. name given to the inner planets
6. a chunk of rock or dust in space, generally smaller than an asteroid
9. the trapping of heat near a planets surface by certain gases in the planets atmosphere
11. a streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in earths atmosphere
15. the continuous flow of charged particles from the sun which permeates the solar system.
16. oval shape
19. a loose collection of ice and dust that orbits the sun typically in a long narrow orbit