science chapter 11 vocab The Universe Near and Far

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Across
  1. 3. a piece of rock, smaller than an asteroid, that enters Earth's atmosphere and burns up
  2. 6. an imaginary line running through the center of the North Pole to the South Pole
  3. 7. the regular rise and fall of the ocean's surface, caused mostly by the moon's gravitational pull on Earth's ocean
  4. 8. the movement of one object in an orbit around another object
  5. 9. one complete rotation of Earth on its axis
Down
  1. 1. the time it takes a planet to revolve around the sun
  2. 2. a body in space that orbits a larger body
  3. 4. an event that occurs when one object passes into the shadow of another object
  4. 5. the turning of an object on an axis
  5. 6. a piece of rock and metal that orbits the sun