Earth and Space Vocabulary Crossword
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
 
 
Down: 1) A celestial body resembling a small planet, but lacking technical criteria.2) A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern 4) Each complete cycle of phases called a Lunation 5) Half Moon6) The movement of one object (planet) around a center (sun). 7) A small body rocky or metallic body in outer space 9) Planets whose orbits lie outside the Asteroid Belt: Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus.10) A fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote incandescent body like the Sun.15) To cause move into a sloping position.16) An imaginary line about which a body rotates19) Action of rotating an axis. Across: 3) A system of billions of stars together with gas and dust held together by gravitational attraction.8) The Moon’s disc is close as it could be to be illuminated by the Sun 11) A celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust 12) Full Moon 13) The collection of eight planets and their moons in orbit around the Sun. 14) A time when the Moon presents a particular recurring appearance. 16) A small rocky body orbiting the sun17) The Galaxy of which the sun and solar system are part and which contains the myriad of stars that create the light.18) Planets that are closer to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars 20) A large bowl shape cavity in the ground or in the surface of a planet or the Moon.21) A celestial object or space craft moving in or around a star or planet
 

 

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