Asteroids Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 4. Asteroids within our solar system can reach speeds of 45 ________!
- 5. Asteroids are basically giant rocks that are a mix of rocky __________ materials along with metals
- 7. Asteroids have immense speed as they orbit the ______
- 9. A large, rocky or metallic object in space that ranges in size from about 30 feet to hundreds of miles across
- 11. Asteroids are huge but they are smaller than the _____________ of our solar system
- 13. Over a million asteroids reside within the Asteroid ________
Down
- 1. Asteroids are usually more than 30 feet wide and have a/n ___________ shape
- 2. Asteroids are also made of metals, namely iron and _________
- 3. This asteroid is of great interest and is of great concern
- 6. This asteroid collision event occured in 1908, 80 million trees were flattened
- 8. The word asteroid comes from a Greek word meaning ________-like
- 10. Asteroids instill a sense of ________ to humans
- 12. the Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was about _____ miles wide