Astronomy Review Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• impact : _ creators are left by meteorites
• lunar : this word means moon
• hubble : _ 's law says that nearby galaxies are moving away from us slowly
• mercury : this planet is the closest to the sun
• mars : this planet is sometimes called "the red planet"
• meteor : what a meteoroid is called whiles going through the atmosphere
• nuclear : _ fusion is the energy producing reaction that occurs in the sun creating the released heat and light
• blue : the color shift that no galaxies show on spectroscopes
• eccentricity : the "flatness" of an ellipse
• small : _ stars can burn for 100 billion years
• six : the number of times light can go around the earth in one second
• venus : this planet's day is longer than its year
• solar : you should never look at this type of eclipse
• nebular : the theory of how the solar system formed
• jupiter : this is the largest planet
• neutron : this star is small, but dense
• comets : these have a solid core surrounded by ice
• galaxy : a cluster of stars that make up a large group
• spectroscope : this instrument breaks up incoming starlight into a spectrum of color
• summer : the earth is tilted toward the sun during the _
• astronomy : the study of outer space
• neptune : this planet is pale blue and has high winds
• ellipse : a type of oval that is the shape of all planet's orbit
• saturn : this planet could float if it was in water