P1 Chapter 4 The Space

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Across
  1. 1. System The Sun and the planets and other bodies in orbit around it.
  2. 3. A rocky inner planet, second from the Sun in our Solar System.
  3. 6. eclipse An eclipse where all of the Sun is covered by the Moon.
  4. 9. A collection of stars that make a pattern in the sky.
  5. 11. A piece of rock or dust that makes a streak of light in the night sky.
  6. 13. A rocky body orbiting Earth; it is Earth’s only natural satellite.
  7. 14. Lumps of rock orbiting the Sun left over from when the Solar System formed.
  8. 15. of the Moon Shape of the Moon as we see it from the Earth.
  9. 19. Made of rock.
  10. 20. Any large body that orbits a star in a Solar System.
  11. 23. Everything that exists.
  12. 24. A non-contact force that acts between two masses.
  13. 25. A rocky inner planet, fourth from the Sun in the Solar System.
  14. 28. A stony or metallic object that has fallen to Earth from outer space.
  15. 30. Way The galaxy containing our Sun and Solar System.
  16. 33. eclipse An eclipse where the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth.
  17. 35. eclipse An eclipse that happens when the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon.
  18. 36. A rocky inner planet, closest to the Sun in the Solar System.
  19. 37. planet A small lump of rock in orbit around the sun.
Down
  1. 2. A scientist who studies space.
  2. 4. The period on one section of the Earth or other planet when it is facing away from the Sun.
  3. 5. eclipse A solar eclipse where only part of the Sun is covered by the Moon.
  4. 7. A number of stars and the solar systems around them grouped together.
  5. 8. Dust particles frozen in ice that orbit the Sun.
  6. 10. A squashed circle or oval shape.
  7. 12. Planets in orbit around a star other than our Sun.
  8. 16. A body in space that gives out its own light.
  9. 17. satellite A manmade spacecraft.
  10. 18. The time it takes a planet to make one full spin on its axis.
  11. 21. The star at the centre of our Solar System.
  12. 22. Changes in the temperature during the year as the Earth moves around its orbit.
  13. 26. The imaginary line that the Earth spins around.
  14. 27. giant An outer planet in the Solar System made mainly from gas.
  15. 29. A rocky inner planet, third from the Sun in the Solar System.
  16. 31. The length of time it takes for a planet to orbit the Sun.
  17. 32. satellite A moon in orbit around a planet.
  18. 34. The path taken by one body in space around another.