Directions: Read the definitions aloud and try to find the word. Your teacher will provide clues.
1. _________
2. _________
Definition: the galaxy (= star system) that includes the earth, seen at night as a pale strip across the
sky (noun)
3. _________
4. _________
Definition: one of many large rocks that circle the sun (noun)
5. _________
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6. _________
Definition: the distance that light travels in one year (noun)
7. _________
8. _________
Definition: an occasion when the sun disappears from view, either completely or partly, while the
moon is moving between it and the earth, or when the moon becomes darker while the shadow of the
9. _________
Definition: the theory that the universe began with a large explosion of a single mass of matter (noun)
10. _________
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Directions: Do you know the meaning of these words? Try to explain them. Your teacher will help you.
1. Compelling (adjective)
2. Fascinate (verb)
3. Comprise (verb)
4. Planetary (adjective)
5. Orbit (verb)
6. Meteoroid (noun)
7. Phenomenon (noun)
8. Constellation (noun)
9. Interplanetary (adjective)
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Directions: Try to make up a paragraph using as many words from exercises 1 and 2 as you can.
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