Vocab crossword puzzle 2
Across
- 3. our planet
- 6. an object's spinning motion about its own axis 1
- 9. the point at which the atmosphere's pressure is one bar
- 11. the theory of the science of physical and logical laws with respect to any natural body in the sky especially at night.
- 12. the region beyond the earth's atmosphere containing the other planets of the solar system, stars, galaxies, etc
- 13. any massive self-luminous celestial body of gas that shines by radiation derived from its internal energy sources.
- 14. a doughnut-shaped ring of icy objects around the Sun, extending just beyond the orbit of Neptune from about 30 to 55 AU
- 16. the big rock that orbits our planet
- 19. an object's spinning motion about its own axis 2
- 20. the extremely hot center of Earth, another planet, or a star.
Down
- 1. the angle between the plane of the earth's equator and the plumb line (direction of gravity) at a given point on the earth's surface
- 2. the diameter measured by an observer at a specific distance from the object
- 4. the convention for measuring angles on the sky
- 5. the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center
- 7. an invisible line around which an object rotates, or spins
- 8. cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun
- 10. a small rocky body orbiting the sun
- 12. a small number of stars that orbit each other, bound by gravitational attraction
- 15. the object's orbital motion around another object
- 17. a regular, repeating path that one object takes around another object or center of gravity
- 18. a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar system