Science Ch.6
Across
- 2. The star in the center of our solar system, and the closest star to us.
- 4. the largest planet with the rings.
- 5. a hole on the surface of the mood or planet made by another heavenly body hitting it.
- 7. The smallest planet in our solar system, the planet closest to the sun.
- 11. when only half the moon is visible.
- 12. a heavenly body that orbits a planet.
- 14. a tool that tells time by using the sun.
- 15. something that stays the same.
- 16. the hottest and brightest planet, also known as earth’s twin.
- 17. the four plan is closest to the sun, mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars.
- 21. a small piece of space rock traveling in space often a piece of an asteroid.
- 22. a type of rope that keeps an astronaut from floating into space.
- 23. a large piece of rock that orbits the sun.
- 26. known as the red planet.
- 28. an unmanned spacecraft, such as a rover or lander that collects pictures and data in space.
- 30. The sun and everything that orbits it.
- 31. when the moon is not visible at all.
- 34. a star almost always located above the north Pole.
- 35. What helps all the planets orbit the sun.
- 36. movement of the ocean is caused by the moons gravity.
- 37. the system of stars that are solar system is a part of.
- 38. something that orbit a heavenly body.
Down
- 1. the largest planet.
- 3. when all the moon is visible.
- 6. the only planet designed for life.
- 8. a group of stars that makes a picture.
- 9. the planet that looks blue and the planet furthest away from the sun.
- 10. A planet full orbit around the sun.
- 13. the planets farther from the sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
- 15. when only less than half the moon is visible.
- 18. a heavenly body that is a giant ball of hot, glowing gas.
- 19. the way, the Earth spins or rotates.
- 20. the only planet tipped on its side.
- 24. A natural object in space
- 25. a spacecraft where scientists can live and work about orbiting the Earth.
- 27. what the moon does with the suns like.
- 29. A large, heavenly body that orbits a star.
- 32. a person who travels in outer space.
- 33. The continual path one heavenly body takes around another.