The Earth, Moon, and Sun
Across
- 4. an instrument used to study far away things such as the moon, stars, and other planets
- 5. the largest part of the moons shadow
- 6. a device that expels gas in one direction to move the opposite direction
- 7. a tide with the lowest difference between the high and low tides
- 11. the imaginary line that passes through Earth; Earth tilts on this
- 13. chunks of rock or dust from space
- 15. the eclipses that occurs when the moon is between the Earth and the sun
- 18. the amount of matter in an object
- 21. the force that propels a rocket forward
- 24. states that objects at rest will stay at rest and objects in motion will stay in motion
- 29. the speed a rocket must achieve to go beyond a planets gravitational pull
- 30. a spacecraft that can carry a crew into space
- 32. the very darkest part of the moons shadow
- 33. the study of all objects in space
- 34. the days when the sun is farthest north or south from the equator
- 36. the tendency of an object to resist a change in motion
- 37. the days when neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun
Down
- 1. large, round pits in the moon
- 2. the eclipses that occurs when the Earth is between the moon and the sun
- 3. the movement of one object around another
- 8. speed a rocked must achieve to make an orbit around Earth
- 9. an artificial satellite that people can live and work on for long periods of time
- 10. small robots that spaceprobes carry that walk on the surface
- 12. speed in a given direction
- 14. a spacecraft that carries instruments to collect data, it doesn't carry people
- 16. the different shapes of the moon that people can see from Earth
- 17. the curved path of spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon; the Earth does this to the sun.
- 19. an object that revolves around another object in space
- 20. states that every object in the universe attracts every other object
- 22. a push or pull
- 23. this attracts all objects toward each other
- 25. the partial or total blocking of one object in space by another
- 26. a tide with the biggest difference between high and low tides
- 27. the spinning of Earth on its axis
- 28. the force of gravity on an object
- 31. the rise and fall of Earths oceans
- 35. the moons dark, flat areas