Our Created Moon Vocabulary
Across
- 2. hot molten undergound rock material that may also contain solid crystals and dissolved gasses
- 4. a vast collection of about 100 billion stars held together by gravity
- 5. the National Aeronautics and Space Administration formed by Congress in 1958
- 8. large, dark, flat lava flows on the moon
- 9. the surface material hat overlies bedrock on the moon
- 10. Hebrew wod translated "day"
- 11. Latin word meaning "to call"
- 14. U.S. space program that landed 6 teams of astronauts on the moon during 1969-1972
- 15. chemical analysis to determine the ratios of parent and daughter atoms
- 16. the limit outside the earth's atmosphere in which a moon with break up
- 17. theory that universe began 10-15 billion years ago from the gradual expansion
Down
- 1. a cloud of gas and dust in space
- 2. measure of the total amount of matter in an ovject
- 3. long, light-colored streaks radiation outward from craters
- 4. fundamental force of nature that causes an attraction between all objects
- 6. a rocky object, much smaller than a planet, that orbits the sun.
- 7. a rock made up of small angular fragments
- 11. a circular depression resulting from a collision with a space object
- 12. traps protected spots near the moon's poles that are in permanent shadows
- 13. the line separation light from darkness on the moon