Discovering Gravity #1
Across
- 2. he believed that a heavy ball and a light ball fall at the same rate
- 4. an American astronomer who theorized that the galaxies were full of invisible, unseeable, very heavy dark matter.
- 6. to send or give out something, such as smoke, gas, heat, or light.
- 8. doing something, such as a sport or hobby, for pleasure and not as a paid job
- 10. a branch of mathematics that deals with calculating things such as the slopes of curves
- 11. an English scientist who invented calculus, and the scientific law of universal gravity
- 12. to soak up a liquid or take in energy, heat, light, or sound
- 13. he believed that Earth was not at the center of the universe, but that the sun was at the center.
- 16. put after a date, BCE stands for Before the Common Era and counts down to zero. CE stands for Common Era and counts up from zero. This book was published in 2023 CE.
Down
- 1. to be pulled through the air by only the force of gravity
- 3. he believed that all matter had a natural place and that Earth's natural place was in the very center.
- 5. the fastest an object will travel in free fall
- 7. matter particles that do not absorb, reflect, or emit light
- 9. a person who thinks about and questions the way things are in the world and in the universe
- 14. to bounce off a surface. To redirect something that hits a surface, such as heat, light, or sound.
- 15. the path of an object circling another object