Sun

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. English composer (6)
  2. 6. Natural satellite that orbits the Earth (4)
  3. 8. A medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer (6)
  4. 10. The quality of being ___ (10)
  5. 12. The largest planet and the 5th from the sun (7)
  6. 15. A cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere (7)

Down

  1. 1. The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere (6)
  2. 2. A stream of protons moving radially from the sun (9)
  3. 3. A region of space resulting from the collapse of a star (9)
  4. 5. An ordered array of the components of an emission or wave (8)
  5. 7. The star our planet orbits (3)
  6. 9. A star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process (9)
  7. 11. The month following February and preceding April (plural) (4)
  8. 13. Reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts (7)
  9. 14. The state of being combined into one body (6)