Learn your Earth and space vocab

We used a couple of dictionary websites (Wordsmith and Merriam-Webster) to find out the meaning of our spelling words - and found some pictures to go with them too. Click on the pic above to see a bigger version of Eirine's, which she finished earlier today.

Here's a few more words and phrases that you might need to know:

- Celestial = (adjective) to describe something in space (i.e. planets, moons, stars, galaxies, comets, etc). The word tends to be used quite often in religious writing.
- Heavenly body = (noun) any large object in space. The Earth and the sun are both 'heavenly bodies'.
- Axis = (noun) the imaginary line that runs through the Earth from the north to south pole. The Earth rotates (spins) around this axis.
- Gravitational = (adjective) to do with gravity. The gravitational pull of Jupiter is much greater than Earth's, because it is much larger.

The site we searched on, 'Kid's Search Tools', is at http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm