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Chapter 23 Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

compelte this crossword puzzle based on key terms about our solar system from Chapter 23
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small, dry rocky body in orbit around the sun between Mars and Jupiter or beyond the orbit of Neptune
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A meteor that does not completely vaporizes and strikes the Earth's surface.
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Any celestial object that orbits the sun is not classified as a dwarf planet, planet, moon, or comet.
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An object in orbit around the sun massive enough to be round, but not massive enough to have cleared an orbital area of space debris.
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Tectonic activity dominated by the rising and sinking of the mantle and crust
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A stream of particles radiating outword from the sun at fast speed.
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Disk shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune that contain comets, asteroids and other space debris.
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Dry, barren, and flat expanses of volcanic rock on the moon, first thought to be seas
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A fragment from an asteroid or comet traveling through the solar system in an irregular orbit.
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A falling meteoroid that glows as it enters Earth's atmosphere and vaporizes.
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A small of dust about 1 millimeter embedded in a meteorite
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An object composed of loosely bound rock and ice that tends to form a bright head and fuzzy tail as it approaches the sun.
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The four outer planets with relatively small rocky or metal cores surround by swirling liquid or gaseous atmosphere.