Solar System Vocabulary
Across
- 2. relating to the land
- 4. the shape the moon seems to have at a given time, takes 29.5 days
- 7. Scientists who study the solar system and outer space
- 8. a giant ball of hot, glowing gases that release energy
- 10. the sun, the eight planets and their moons, and other objects that revolve the sun
- 11. spinning of a planet, moon or star around its axis
- 12. a large, ball shaped body that revolves or travels around the sun
- 13. a shape that is like a circle stretched out in opposite directions
Down
- 1. patterns of stars in the sky
- 3. movement of one object around another
- 5. A device built to observe distant objects by making them appear closer
- 6. a small rocky body orbiting the sun
- 9. an instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north