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The Solar System Vocabulary

By: Saylor Gilliam
Across
The region beyond Neptune's orbit
Clouds of gas and dust form a fuzzy, outer layer
Chunks of dust and rock from space
An object that orbits the Sun and has enough gravity to be spherical but has not cleared the area of its orbit
When a meteorid enters Earth's atmosphere
The inner planets
Trapping of heat by the atmosphere
Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun
Rocky objects which are too small to be considered planets
Must be round,orbit the sun, and have cleared out the region of the solar system along its orbit
Meteoroids that pass through the atmosphere and are found on Earth's surface
Down
An earth centered model
Consists of the sun, moon, planets,and a variety of other small objects
Loose collections of ice, dust, and small rocky particles whose orbits can be very long, narrow ellipses.
Large, round pits
An oval shape
The name often given to outer planets.
Equals the average distance between Earth and the Sun about 150 million kilometers
A cloud located beyond the kuiper belt
A region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter