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