Chapter 3 Science Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Asteroid Blet | is a region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter |
| Kuiper Belt | a region where many small objects orbit the sun and that stretches from beyond the orgit of Neptune to about 100 times Earth's distance from the sun |
| Oort Cloud | a spherical region of comets that surrounds the solar system |
| Comet | a loose collection of ice and dust that orbits the sun, typically in a long, narrow orbit |
| Coma | the fuzzy outer layer of a comet |
| Nucleus | the solid inner core of a comet |
| Asteroid | one of the rocky objects revolving around the sun that are too small and numerous to be considered planets |
| Meteoroid | a chunk of rock or dust in space, generally smaller than an asteroid |
| Meteor | a streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere |
| Meteorite | a meteoroid that passes through the atmosphere and hits Earth's surface |
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