Big Idea 5 vocabulary
Across
- 4. phases an indication of the fraction of the moon that is illuminated as seen from Earth.
- 8. A term used to describe the magnetic force exerted by oppositely charged objects or to describe the gravitational force that pulls objects toward each other.
- 10. An object that is found in the solar system, orbits the Sun, and is much smaller than a planet.
- 11. The amount of matter a substance or object has.
- 12. a group of billions of stars, the objects that orbit the stars, gas, and dust.
- 15. Half of Earth.
- 16. A natural object that orbits a planet.
- 17. everything that exists.
Down
- 1. An object made of rock, ice, dust, and gas that revolves around the Sun.
- 2. The path of one object in space around another object
- 3. A large body in space that orbits a star and does not produce its own light.
- 5. system A system of planets and other bodies that orbits a star.
- 6. A large object in space that is made of gas and produces its own light.
- 7. A pattern of stars that form an imaginary picture in the sky
- 8. the imaginary line around which Earth spins as it rotates
- 9. The turning of an object on its axis.
- 13. planet nearly round bodies whose orbits cross the orbits of other bodies.
- 14. The motion of one object around another object.