Chapter 11 : The Solar System and The Stars
Across
- 2. What is a chunk of rocky material covered with ice called?
- 4. What are the four outer planets called?
- 6. What is the common unit used to measure large distances?
- 8. What are the paths that the planets revolve around the sun in called?
- 9. What are the objects that travel around our sun called?
- 11. What is another word for spacecraft?
- 12. What is the imaginary line called that objects spin around?
- 14. What do we call groups of stars?
- 16. What do we call the belief that objects in the sky influence people's lives?
- 17. What distance does light travel at?
- 18. What is a lump of rock that falls from space called?
Down
- 1. What are the four planets closest to the sun known as?
- 3. What is the method of measuring distances indirectly by drawing a scale diagram of a triangle called?
- 5. What are irregular, rock objects called?
- 7. How many planets are there?
- 10. What is the motion of one object around another called?
- 13. What is the spinning of an object around an imaginary line called?
- 15. What is the device that splits light energy into a series of colours?