09.5 Application: Other Members of the Solar System

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Across
  1. 1. Name for an area of space beyond the orbit for Neptune to around 50 AU from the Sun?
  2. 4. Name for a celestial body that lies mostly in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter?
  3. 8. Name of one of two ice giants in the outer solar system that is made up of a hot dense fluid of "icy" materials – water, methane, and ammonia?
  4. 11. Name of the most visible part of a comet?
  5. 13. Name of a system of a Sun and the objects that move around it?
  6. 16. Name for objects that orbit the Sun at a farther distance that Neptune?
  7. 18. Name for a cloud of icy planetesimals that exist 50,000 AU from the Sun
  8. 19. Name of the star around which the planets revolve, from which they receive heat and light?
  9. 20. Name of a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium?
Down
  1. 2. Name of a dwarf planet located in a distant region of our solar system beyond Neptune known as the Kuiper Belt?
  2. 3. What has a tail point in the same direction as the gas tail?
  3. 5. Name of a rock that falls to Earth from space?
  4. 6. Name of the second planet from the Sun, and the sixth largest planet?
  5. 7. Name for a small, rocky object from space that is heated up as it enters the Earth's atmosphere?
  6. 9. Name of the fourth planet from the Sun, and the seventh largest?
  7. 10. what is made up of glasses and is close to the sun?
  8. 12. Name of a rocky, terrestrial planet?
  9. 14. Name of a solid, rocky surface cratered and pitted from impacts by asteroids, meteorites, and comets?
  10. 15. Name of the smallest planet in our solar system and the nearest to the Sun?
  11. 17. Name of a gas giant, and the largest and most massive planet in our Solar System?
  12. 21. Name of a very cold and windy world,ice giant is surrounded by 13 faint rings and 28 small moons?