Stars
Across
- 5. a small insect that produces flashes of light when it flies at night
- 6. a group of objects of one type that have been collected by one person or in one place
- 9. a gas, one of the chemical elements, that is lighter than air and will not burn. (symbol He)
- 10. dry dirt in the form of powder that covers surfaces inside a building, or very small dry pieces of earth, sand, or other substances
- 13. A chemical reaction is the change that happens when two or more substances are mixed with each other. Chemistry
- 14. the sudden failure of a system, organization, business, etc.
- 15. a large ball of burning gas in space that is usually seen from earth as a point of light in the sky at night:
- 16. the area above the earth in which clouds, the sun, and the stars can be seen
- 17. A nucleus is the central part of an atom. see also neutron, proton. Topics Physics and chemistry
- 18. the center or most important part of something
Down
- 1. the period between birth and death, or the state of being alive
- 2. a form of matter that is neither solid nor liquid and can increase in size to fill any container
- 3. the number 1,000,000,000
- 4. the part of every 24-hour period when it is dark because there is no direct light from the sun:
- 7. a place where young children and babies are cared for while their parents are somewhere else
- 8. a very young star that is still gathering mass from its parent molecular cloud.
- 11. the number 1,000,000
- 12. a cloud of dust or gas in outer space
- 18. a white or gray mass of very small drops of water or ice that float in the sky