Grade 6 - Earth's Place in the Universe Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. A ball of hot gas that gives off light and is held together by gravity
  2. 2. A celestial object moving in an elliptical orbit around a star
  3. 4. Relating to the moon.
  4. 6. An object that orbits a planet or something else that is not a star.
  5. 8. Draw a picture or a diagram
  6. 9. The varying appearances of an object as different amounts of it are seen from Earth.
Down
  1. 1. System The Sun, moon and 8 planets.
  2. 3. When the sun or moon is completely or partly covered with a dark circle.b
  3. 5. Includes all of space, planets, stars and galaxies.
  4. 7. A system of stars, bits of old stars, gas, dust and dark matter held together by gravity.