Earth's Movements

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Across
  1. 3. the line where the sky meets the Earth
  2. 5. a huge mass of stars
  3. 6. the time when the Sun appears to sink below the horizon
  4. 9. a machine launched into space by a rocket
  5. 11. the time when the Sun appears to rise over the horizon
  6. 14. the length of time it takes Earth to complete one revolution around the Sun
  7. 15. a person who travles in space
  8. 17. an imaginary line passing through Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole; Earth rotates around this axis
  9. 18. a fast rotation movement
  10. 21. bits of rock and sand that enter Earth's atmosphere from space
  11. 22. an instrument containing mirrors and lenses that make distant objects like stars look bigger and brighter
  12. 23. the movement of a planet around the Sun in an orbit or any other body in the universe moving around a bigger body
  13. 25. lump of ice and dirt that moves in a large orbit around the Sun
Down
  1. 1. half the Earth, for example, the northern hemisphere is between the equator an the North pole
  2. 2. the Sun with eight planets and other bodies such as dwarf planets, moons, and asteroids revolving around it
  3. 4. the path taken when a body moves around a larger body in space
  4. 7. concentrate on
  5. 8. when it looks as though something has caused as action but in fact it was caused by something else
  6. 10. a body in space that revolves around a star
  7. 11. a body in space that gives off light and heat
  8. 12. get larger
  9. 13. the movement of a body on its axis
  10. 15. body smaller than a moon that orbits the Sun
  11. 16. the whole of space
  12. 19. a model of Earth
  13. 20. a scientist who studies the universe
  14. 24. at an angle, not vertical