Effects on Politics

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet" (5)
  2. 5. A collection of star systems (6)
  3. 6. Relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun (5)
  4. 8. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight (4)
  5. 11. Layer of air around the Earth (10)
  6. 12. A person trained to travel in a spacecraft (9)
  7. 14. A manned artificial satellite in a fixed orbit designed for scientific research (12)
  8. 15. Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers (7)
  9. 16. The galaxy containing the solar system (8)

Down

  1. 1. A motorboat with an open deck or a half deck (6)
  2. 2. The month following February and preceding April (plural) (4)
  3. 4. Any vehicle self-propelled by a ___ engine (6)
  4. 7. A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving (10)
  5. 9. Any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star (9)
  6. 10. Everything that exists anywhere (8)
  7. 13. A region of space resulting from the collapse of a star (9)