Astronomy
Across
- 1. effect, a process that occurs when gasses in Earth's atmosphere trap the Sun's heat
- 7. The dates when the Sun crosses Earth’s equator and the lengths of day and night are equal
- 8. The star at the center of our solar system
- 11. when a meteoroid burns up entering Earth’s atmosphere creating a streak of light in the sky
- 12. zone, the habitable zone
- 15. the study of stars planet and space
- 17. A meteoroid that lands on the Earth's surface
- 19. large object that meets the three requirements
- 21. a group of stars that looks like a particular shape in the sky and has been given a name
- 23. when the Sun reaches its highest or lowest in the sky the longest and shortest daylight of the year
- 24. a sphere of gas held together by its own gravity
Down
- 2. when one object in space passes through the shadow of another object in space
- 3. to move in a spinning motion about its own axis
- 4. a small rocky object that orbits the Sun
- 5. the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center
- 6. Units, the distance from the Sun to Earth's orbit
- 9. to circle around something or move in an orbit
- 10. An orbit is a regular andrepeating path that one object in space takes around another one
- 13. A natural satellite that orbits a planet or asteroid
- 14. cosmic snowballs of frozen gasses rock and dust roughly the size of a small town
- 16. objects in space that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids
- 18. the regular rise and fall of the ocean caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun
- 20. system, Our solar system consists of our star the Sun and everything bound to it by gravity
- 22. an imaginary straight line around which an object spins