Foss Reading: A Tour of the Solar System
Across
- 6. smallest of all the gas giants
- 7. dwarf planet found in the Asteroid Belt
- 8. sometimes called a dirt snowball; orbit the sun in long, oval paths
- 9. planet with many storms, including one known as the Great Red Spot
- 11. contains 99.8% of all mass in the Solar System
- 13. planet with rings made of ice and rock
Down
- 1. very hot planet; one of the hottest places in the Solar System
- 2. chunks of iron and rock
- 3. planet covered with thousands of craters
- 4. was once a planet but is now considered a dwarf planet
- 5. planet with a surface of red soil made of iron oxide (rust)
- 10. planet that appears blue because of its methane gas in the atmosphere
- 12. has an atmosphere made of nitrogen and oxygen