Earth Science Chapter 19 Vocabulary
Across
- 2. an event in which the shadow of one celestial body falls on another
- 5. a planet that has a deep, massive atmosphere
- 6. a natural or artificial body that revolves around a celestial body that is greater in mass
- 9. a celestial body that orbits the sun, is round because of its own gravity, but has not cleared its orbital path
- 11. small, rocky objects that orbits the sun
- 12. a model for the formation of the solar system
- 13. a planet like body that orbits a star other than the sun
Down
- 1. a large cloud of dust and gas in interstellar space
- 3. a celestial body that orbits the sun, is round because of its own gravity, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbital path
- 4. small bodies of ice, rock, and cosmic dust that follow an elliptical orbit and have tails
- 6. the sun and all of the planets and other bodies that travel around it
- 7. one of the highly dense planets nearest to the sun
- 8. the portion of Earth that is water
- 10. the change in the illuminated area of one celestial body as seen from another celestial body