Across
- 3. a tide just after a new or full moon, when there is the greatest difference between high and low water.
- 6. the entire range of electromagnetic radiation
- 8. A scatter graph used by astronomers to classify stars by plotting their surface temperature against their brightness (luminosity)
- 10. a giant, glowing cloud of dust and gas (mostly hydrogen and helium) floating in space.
- 11. which posits that space, time, and matter emerged approximately 13.8 billion years ago from an extremely hot, dense singularity, subsequently expanding and cooling
- 12. a large, round celestial body that orbits the Sun
- 13. to move in a circle around a central point or to spin on an axis
- 14. They are the building blocks of the universe, with the Milky Way being our home ______.
- 15. moderate, "weak" tides that occur twice a month during the moon's first and third quarters
- 16. a massive glowing sphere of hot gas,mostly of` hydrogen and helium
- 17. a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and has a “tail” of gas and dust particles
Down
- 1. Earth’s only natural satellite, a large, rocky, and dusty sphere that orbits our planet
- 2. the circular movement of an object around the axis
- 4. A cosmic "neighborhood" consisting of one star and everything held in orbit around it by gravity
- 5. often called a "shooting star," is a streak of light in the night sky produced when a small piece of space rock or metal
- 7. a wave that moves perpendicular
- 9. energy-carrying waves produced by the acceleration of charged particles
