Across
- 4. The universe is constantly ______
- 6. Our galaxy contains about 100 ______ stars
- 7. Asteroids, meteors and comets
- 9. A large star explodes, then collapses past the pulsar stage into a ______ ______
- 13. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
- 14. The shift of light into the red end of the spectrum caused by an object moving away from the observer
- 16. Amino acids combine to form the ______ that make up living things
- 18. A series of actions repeated in the same order every time
Down
- 1. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
- 2. The explosion of a high-mass star
- 3. The sudden expansion of all the matter in the universe
- 5. Low-medium mass stars cool down ad swell up into ______ ______
- 8. Harold Urey and Stanley Miller placed hydrogen, methane, ______ and water into a flask and sent an electric spark through it to try and create amino acids
- 10. One of the gases that composed most of the nebula that formed our solar system
- 11. The life cycle of a star depends greatly on the star's ______
- 12. The study of the origin and changes of the universe
- 15. The point in time when the entire universe was contained in a tiny volume that was extremely hot and dense
- 17. All stars begin their lives in a ______
