Earth Science chapter 19 and 20 Crossword
Across
- 5. Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune.
- 7. The spinning of Earth on its axis.
- 8. Large round pits on the moons surface.
- 10. The tendency of an object to resist change in motion,
- 15. The trapping of heat in the atmospere.
- 17. a chunk of rock or dust in spaces that comes from comets or asteroids.
- 19. The movement of one object around another.
- 20. Meteoroid that passs through Earth's atmosphere and hit the surface.
- 21. Sun centered model of the solar system developed by Copernicus.
- 23. The imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and the North and South Poles.
- 24. Doughnut shaped region that extends from beyond Neptunes orbit.
- 26. A tide with the greatest difference between consecutive low and high tides.
- 30. When a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere and produces a streak of light in the sky.
- 31. The rise and fall of the oceans water
- 33. The amount of matter in an object.
- 34. 23.5 degrees.
- 35. The darkest part of the moon's shadow.
- 36. shape of planetary orbits.
- 37. Dark, flat areas on the moon's surface.
Down
- 1. An array of Radio telescopes located in West Virginia.
- 2. The different shapes of the moon you see from Earth.
- 3. The path that Earth follows.
- 4. The force of gravity on an object.
- 6. Sun Moon Earth
- 9. The force that attracts all objects towards one another.
- 11. Mercury Venus Earth Mars
- 12. Sun Earth Moon
- 13. A tide with the least difference between consecutive low and high tides.
- 14. Rocky objects that are too small and too numerous to be considered full fledged planets.
- 16. A spherical region of comets that surround the solar system.
- 18. Earth centered model of the solar system developed by Ptolemy.
- 22. When an object in space comes between the sun and a third object.
- 25. The larger part of the moon's shadow andis less dark.
- 27. means "equal night"
- 28. when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator.
- 29. The study of moon, stars, and other objects in space.
- 32. A "dirty snowball"