Solar System Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. invisible line that Earth spins around
  2. 8. the complete trip an object makes around another object
  3. 10. to bounce light off a surface.
  4. 11. Earth spins on an imaginary line called an axis
  5. 13. Earth's natural satellite
Down
  1. 1. the only planet in our solar system known to support life
  2. 2. how much light shines on a surface
  3. 4. the center of our solar system
  4. 5. the four periods of the year
  5. 6. giant ball of hot gas in space
  6. 7. cycle the changing amount of the Moon we see from Earth each month
  7. 9. the curved path an object takes as it travels around another object
  8. 12. phase the part of the Moon that looks lit by the Sun