Astronomy Review

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Across
  1. 2. Not really a princess, but we'll call her one anyway to sell more merch
  2. 3. If the altitude of the sun is HIGH in the sky, the weather will be ________
  3. 4. Ariel combs her hair with a ____________
  4. 8. ___________ genes, like right-handedness, tend to cover up other genes, which is why they are more common
  5. 12. It gets colder as you move away from the equator because the Earth is ________
  6. 13. The sun is really far away, so sunlight strikes the Earth's surface in straight and ________ lines
  7. 14. Measures how strong the gravity acting on an object is
  8. 16. diversity is essential in nature because it protects us from genetic ____________
  9. 17. The force that pulls masses towards each other
  10. 18. When the altitude is low, light gets __________ over a bigger area. This makes it weaker and will result in colder weather
  11. 20. The sun's gravity pulls the planets into circular __________ around itself
  12. 21. The shadow is always in the __________ direction of the light that makes it
  13. 23. The ANGLE of the sun to the earth. NOT the distance
Down
  1. 1. As the MASS of an object increases, the strength of its gravitational pull will __________
  2. 3. The sun is a ____________ times wider than the earth (BIG)!
  3. 5. When the altitude of the sun is HIGH, your shadow will be _________
  4. 6. The smallest unit of life. We have about 50 trillion of them in our bodies
  5. 7. __________ Murphy is the voice of Mushu, Donkey, and plays Axel Foley
  6. 9. The amount of "stuff" an object is made of
  7. 10. gravity pulls things ____________
  8. 11. "No one's quick as...., no one's got a small cleft in his chin like..." Disney's sigma giga-Chad
  9. 15. In the theory of ___________ selection, genes/ traits that help a living thing adapt to their environment are passed on, while less useful genes die off
  10. 17. ___________ determine traits like hair and eye color
  11. 18. Light travels in perfectly ___________ lines through space
  12. 19. ___________ John wrote the love song from the Lion King
  13. 22. These magic molecules are made by the cells in our bodies. They do everything from changing our hair and eye color to building our bones and muscles.