Astronomy Cross World Puzzle of EARTH.
Across
- 3. Our current North Star.
- 5. This type of heat transfer is found in the troposphere and the mantle.
- 6. The Himalayan Mountains
- 8. The time of day shown in the picture below. (warm rise cold sink)
- 10. Giant wave caused by an earthquake.
- 11. The regions of the magnetosphere surrounding Earth that capture high energy particles.
- 14. This layer of the Earth’s atmosphere includes both the ionosphere and the exosphere.
- 19. Subatomic particle found in the inner Van Allen Belt.
- 20. The planet with the largest most visible rings
- 21. Ignoring the Sun, the brightest star in the sky as seen from Earth.
Down
- 1. Once considered a planet, this object is now a dwarf planet out in the Kuiper belt.
- 2. Radioactive decay is the process in which a radioactive atom spontaneously gives off radiation in the form of energy or particles to reach a more stable state.
- 4. The planet closest to the Sun
- 7. The primary metals found in the core of Earth
- 9. Layers This filters the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet light, stopping it from reaching Earth’s surface.
- 12. The time of day shown in the picture below. (warm sink cold rise)
- 13. The atmosphere of Earth is divided into layers based on this.
- 15. stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids.
- 16. The Sun is directly over this point on Earth during an Equinox.
- 17. The hottest planet in the solar system.
- 18. The layer of Earth’s atmosphere that contains highly charged particles.
- 22. Intense pressure causes this dense layer of Earth to be a solid even though it is the hottest layer