Earth Science 7

3. Occurs when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth and casts a shadow over part of Earth
4. the theory that the universe originated 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small mass of matter at extremely high density and temperature
5. a ball of frozen dust and rock that orbits the sun and has a tail that glows
6. the blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when earth is directly between the sun and the moon
9. A group of stars that form a pattern in the sky
11. a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere
12. A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere.
13. spinning of Earth on its imaginary axis, which takes about 24 hours to complete and causes day and night to occur

1. New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Third Quarter, Waning Crescent
2. A large group of stars, nebulas, gases, dust particles and planets held together by gravity.
7. Earth's yearly orbit around the Sun
8. a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star
10. a piece of rock or metal made up of material similar to that which formed the planets; mostly found in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter