Across
- 1. a push or a pull
- 3. a cold mixture of dust and ice approaching the sun
- 5. an object that orbits the sun
- 6. the farthest points the sun reaches in a year
- 9. a system of organizing time
- 14. the darkest shadow of the moon during a solar eclipse
- 15. the shadow cast on an object from another object that has moved between the sun and the 1st object
- 19. a force of an object that pulls on another object because of its mass
- 20. the tendency of an object to resist change in motion
- 22. chunks of rocks or dust from space
- 23. the path of a planet around the sun
- 25. the spinning of the Earth
- 26. the amount of matter in an object
Down
- 2. the movement of an object around another
- 4. the rise and fall of ocean waters because of the moon's position
- 7. a body that orbits a planet
- 8. a pattern or group of specific stars
- 10. a hole or divot left on a planet by a meteor impact
- 11. when the moon is directly between the sun and Earth
- 12. the different shapes of the moon you see from Earth
- 13. the largest part of the moon's shadow during a solar eclipse
- 16. an imaginary line that passes through the Earth's center
- 17. a giant ball of hot gas mainly composed of hydrogen and helium
- 18. the half way points that the sun travels in a year
- 21. the measure of the force of gravity on an object
- 22. the streak of light produced when a small object burns up entering the atmosphere
- 24. when the Earth is directly between the sun and the moon
