Week 4 Spelling

5. – The path an object takes as it moves around a planet, star, or moon.
8. A time in history (around the 14th–17th centuries) when art, science, and learning became very important again.
9. A scientist who studies human history by digging up and examining objects from the past.
11. – A person trained to travel and work in space.
13. A zodiac sign, often shown as a goat, for people born between December 22 and January 19
14. Related to Earth or land.
15. – A ball of ice, rock, and gas that travels through space and has a glowing tail when it gets close to the Sun.
16. – A huge group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity. Our galaxy is called the Milky Way.
17. A way of measuring space, such as length, width, height, or even time.

1. Related to the Middle Ages (about 500–1500 AD), a time of knights, castles, and feasts.
2. – The study of the stars, planets, and other objects in space.
3. Something that looks or seems like it belongs in the future.
4. – A small piece of rock from space that burns brightly as it falls through Earth’s atmosphere (sometimes called a “shooting star”).
6. Putting events in the order in which they happened.
7. The study of fossils to learn about ancient plants and animals.
10. – A small, rocky object that orbits the Sun, usually found between Mars and Jupiter.
12. A tool used to make faraway objects, like stars and planets, look closer.
18. A large cloud of gas and dust in space where new stars can be born.