Solar System / Constellations Crossword Quiz

pattern of stars appearing in the night sky.
2. A meteor that is burning up into the Earth’s atmosphere is called a ________star.
3. Explosion of a star as it runs out of nuclear fuel.
4. Bowl-shaped depressions on the Moon’s surface formed by the striking of Meteorites.
5. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are called giant planets and are mainly______.
1. Cloud-like arc of gas that erupts from the surface of the sun.
2. Lumps of rock circling in a broad band between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
3. Sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the Sun’s surface.
4. Oval-shaped path taken by a planet around the Sun.
5. The smallest planet in our Solar System.
6. Mercury, Venus, and Mars are called Terrestrial Planets because they are small, ________ planets, like the Earth.
7. Changing shapes of the Moon that we see.
8. A Black Hole is the dense remains of a massive star, with such a strong gravitational field that ______ cannot escape from it.
9. The largest planet in our Solar System.
15. A wandering lump of ice and dust with a tail of gas that orbits around the Sun.
16. Dark patches on the Sun’s surface.
17. A comet’s tail always points ______ from the Sun.
18. The imaginary line around which the Earth rotates.