Earth Sun and Moon

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another (5)
  2. 3. A visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude (plural) (6)
  3. 6. The latter part of the day (7)
  4. 9. Any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine (plural) (7)
  5. 10. The planet we live on (5)
  6. 11. Everything that exists anywhere (8)
  7. 13. The vast area beyond Earth's atmosphere (5)
  8. 15. To turn on or around an axis or a center (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 1. A giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis (5)
  2. 4. A cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor (6)
  3. 5. Whether it's rainy, sunny or windy outside (7)
  4. 7. The region of the United States lying to the ___ of the Mason-Dixon line (5)
  5. 8. The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside (7)
  6. 12. An imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north (7)
  7. 13. Ball of burning gas shining in the night sky (4)
  8. 14. The month following February and preceding April (plural) (4)