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