Will's Astronomy Puzzle
Across
- 4. a planet that has a deep, massive atmosphere
- 7. a small rocky body that reaches the Earth's surface without burning up completely
- 10. one of the highly dense planets nearest to the Sun; Mercury, Venus, Mars and Earth
- 11. a small rocky object that orbits the Sun, usually in a band between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- 14. an event in which the shadow of one celestial body falls on another
- 15. happens when Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon and the shadow of Earth falls on the Moon.
Down
- 1. a bright streak of light that results when a small rocky body burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.
- 2. a small body of ice, rock and cosmic dust that follows an elliptical orbit around the Sun and gives off gas and dust in the form of a tail as it passes close to the Sun.
- 3. the average distance between the Earth and the Sun
- 5. the region of the solar system that is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in which most asteroids orbit.
- 6. happens when the Moon comes between the Earth and Sun and the shadow of the Moon falls on part of Earth.
- 8. a relatively small, rocky body that travels through space
- 9. a natural or artificial body that revolves around a planet
- 12. the sunlit portion of the Moon that we can see is getting larger or increasing.
- 13. a change in the sunlit area of one celestial body as seen from another celestial body