Space Exploration Word Search
Space Exploration, as a word search. 12 words drawn from the terms and ideas of a school subject sit hidden in a 15×15 letter grid, running in every direction. Drag across a word to claim it, and clear the board to finish.
Words to find: ASTRONAUT, GRAVITY, TELESCOPE, ORBIT, PLANET, SATELLITE, COMET, METEOR, GALAXY, NEBULA, ASTEROID, MARS.
Words run in any of eight directions, backwards included — if one refuses to turn up, try reading the grid right to left.
Space Exploration word list, defined
- ASTRONAUT /ˈæstrənɔːt/ · noun
- A person trained to travel and perform duties aboard a spacecraft. Related: cosmonaut, spaceman, spacewoman, space traveller.
- GRAVITY /ˈɡrævəti/ · noun
- Gravity is the force that attracts bodies with mass toward one another; on Earth, it produces the familiar downward acceleration of falling objects. By extension, it refers to seriousness, importance, dignity, or solemn weight. Related: gravitation, seriousness, importance, weight.
- TELESCOPE /ˈtɛlɪskəʊp/ (British); /ˈtɛləˌskoʊp/ (US) · noun and verb
- A telescope is an optical instrument that collects and focuses light, allowing distant objects to be viewed and magnified. As a verb, it means to look through a telescope or, figuratively, to make something seem less important or extensive by focusing attention elsewhere. Related: spyglass.
- ORBIT /ˈɔːbɪt/ · noun; verb
- As a noun, an orbit is the curved path of an object moving around a star, planet, or other body, as well as a sphere of influence or activity. As a verb, to orbit means to move in a curved path around something, or to remain close to or within a particular sphere of influence. Related: path, trajectory, course, sphere.
- PLANET /ˈplænɪt/ · noun
- A planet is a large, nearly spherical body in space that travels in an orbit around a star and does not produce its own visible light. In the Solar System, the eight recognized planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Related: world.
- SATELLITE /ˈsætəlaɪt/ · noun, adjective, verb
- An object, natural or artificial, that moves in orbit around a planet or other celestial body; also, a state or organization subordinate to a more powerful one. Related: orbiter, spacecraft, moon, client state.
- COMET /ˈkɒmɪt/ · noun
- A celestial body consisting of a nucleus of ice, dust, and rock that, when passing close to the Sun, develops a glowing coma and often one or more tails of gas and dust.
- METEOR /ˈmiːtiər/ · noun
- A meteor is a luminous streak in the sky caused by a space object entering Earth's atmosphere and becoming intensely hot. A meteor that reaches the ground is a meteorite. Related: shooting star, fireball, bolide.
- GALAXY /ˈɡæləksi/ · noun
- A vast system of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity, typically containing millions to trillions of stars. More figuratively, it denotes a large, distinguished assemblage of people or things. Related: star system, nebula, constellation, cluster.
- NEBULA /ˈnɛb.jə.lə/ · noun
- A diffuse cloud or mass of interstellar gas and dust, which may emit, absorb, or reflect light. Related: interstellar cloud, cosmic cloud, gaseous cloud, diffuse cloud.
- ASTEROID /ˈæstərɔɪd/ · noun
- A small rocky body orbiting the Sun, especially one found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; also called a minor planet. More broadly, any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that are larger than meteoroids but much smaller than planets. Related: minor planet, planetoid.
- MARS /mɑːrz/ · noun and verb
- As a noun, mars is the plural of mar. As a verb, it is the third-person singular present form of mar, meaning to damage the appearance or quality of something.
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