Across
- 3. A group of stars that form a pattern
- 5. the first layer of the atmosphere and it contains all life
- 6. A repeating cycle that one celestial body takes around another.
- 7. When the moon is completely visible from Earth
- 8. the second layer and it contains the ozone layer
- 10. Any object that orbits a planet or a sun
- 11. the third layer of the atmosphere and it is where meteors burns up
- 13. When the moon is invisible to Earth
- 18. The region between Mars and Jupiter that contains the largest population of asteroids in our solar system
- 19. How much material an object is made up of
- 20. A half of the Earth, when divided along the lines of either North and South or East and West
- 21. A piece of rock or that lands on Earth’s surface
- 23. When day and night are the same length. This happens twice a year
- 24. The force that pulls objects towards each other
Down
- 1. When one celestial body blocks light from reaching another by moving between it and its light source
- 2. When the moon becomes gradually less visible
- 4. Streaks of light in the sky that occur when meteoroids fall into the Earth’s atmosphere and burn up
- 9. the fourth layer of the atmosphere and it is where auroras take place.
- 12. A building used to observe outer space
- 14. When the moon becomes gradually more visible
- 15. A piece of rock from outer space that enters Earth’s atmosphere
- 16. The shortest and longest days of the year
- 17. A celestial body that orbits the sun that has sufficient mass for its gravity to overcome rigid body forces and has "not cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit
- 18. Small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun
- 22. The star that objects in our solar system orbit
