Patterns of Earth and Sky

4. A scientist who studies stars, planets, and other objects in the universe.
8. Attempting to find out about something that happens.
10. Something that scientists make to answer questions about the real world.
11. The path that Earth follows around the Sun.
13. A description of how or why something happens.
14. Includes the sun, the planets that orbit the sun, and other objects that orbit the Sun.
15. Something we observe to be similar over and over again.

1. The pull between earth and other objects that acts even without touching.
2. A period of time that is 24 hours long and that includes daytime and nighttime.
3. An arrangement of stars as seen from earth.
5. Collected body of data from observations and experiments.
6. To make a picture in your mind using information from different sources.
7. A huge object in space that gives off heat and light.
9. Observations or measurements recorded in an investigation.
12. The length of time it takes for the Earth to orbit the Sun one time.
14. The only star in our solar system.