Solar System Components Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• comet: icy body of frozen gasses, rocks and dust leftover from the formation of the solar system
• asteroid: minor planet
• hydrogen: the most abundant elements in the known universe
• helium: the second most abundant elements in the universe
• mercury: mariner 10 was the first spacecraft to visit this planet
• venus: aka the evening and morning star
• neptune: distant, blue planet in our solar system
• earth: planet with one moon
• mars: the red planet
• jupiter: roman king of the gods
• saturn: planet with a hexagonal storm at the north pole
• uranus: planet named after a greek god
• pluto: classified as a dwarf planet in 2006
• oort: predicted cloud comprised of icy objects farther away than everything else in the solar system
• moon: natural satellite that orbits a planet or asteroid
• sun: g-type main-sequence star, informally called a yellow dwarf, though its light is actually white
• meteoroid: a small rocky or metallic body in outer space that orbit the sun. that is significantly smaller an asteroid, ranging in size from grains to objects up to a meter wide
• ring: disk containing many small chunks of ice and other materials that are in orbit around a larger object
• gravity: einstein called it the curvature of spacetime, caused by the uneven distribution of mass, and causing masses to move along geodesic lines
• matter: mass and takes up space and can exist in several states such as solid, liquid, gas, and plasma