Astronomy Cross World Puzzle of EARTH.

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