Across
- 2. Acceleration = a change in ____________
- 3. The circular path of the planets around the Sun. Caused by the Sun's HUGE gravity
- 5. Newton's third law: For every action/ force, there is an _________ but opposite reaction
- 6. Newton's second law: an object's acceleration depends on its _________ and the size of the FORCE acting on it
- 9. Moving energy
- 11. The summer ___________ is when the norther hemisphere receives the most direct sunlight of the year. The longest day of the year
- 13. Light is predictable! Light from the sun strikes the Earth in straight and ___________ lines!
- 14. Stored energy. The higher it is, the more it has.
- 17. This force pulls ALL objects with mass TOWARDS each other. It is what holds the moon in orbit around the sun
- 19. When the moon is waxing (getting bigger) which side is lit up?
- 21. Which object in the solar system has the MOST gravity?
- 22. All life is made of ____________
- 23. Newton's first law: The only way to change the motion of an object is to apply an unbalanced ________
- 24. All forces come in ___________
Down
- 1. The lunar cycle takes about a ___________.
- 4. The moon doesn't actually light up! It only __________ sunlight
- 6. The more ____________ an object has, the stronger its gravity
- 7. What is the study of living things called?
- 8. The ____________ solstice is when the northern hemisphere receives the least amount of sunlight. Longest night of the year
- 10. The ability to make change. Also, all living things need to be able to produce their own!
- 12. When the sun is 90 degrees to the equator, it is either ________ or Fall. Also, day and night are the exact same length
- 15. The two days of the year when day and night are the exact same number of hours
- 16. The ____________ of the sun, the moon and Earth determines which phase we see
- 18. This word means the same thing as an object's MASS/ how much "stuff" it is made of
- 20. The reason earth has seasons is that its axis is __________. This causes one half of the Earth to get more direct sunlight than the other
