Impact Earth Solar System Crossword Puzzle
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- 3. The inner layer of the sun's atmosphere that gives off its visible light.
- 4. small round bodies that orbit the sun but which have no clears the area around their orbits of other orbiting bodies
- 7. The outer layer of the sun's atmosphere.
- 9. the largest planet and the 5th from the sun
- 10. seventh planet from the Sun; is large and gaseous, has a distinct bluish-green color, and rotates on an axis nearly parallel to the plane of its orbit
- 11. the 4th planet from the sun
- 12. A model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.
- 13. a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy.
- 16. A loose collection of ice, dust, and a small rocky particles, typically with a long, narrow orbit.
- 17. The middle layer of the sun's atmosphere.
- 21. Relatively small and dense planets with rocky surfaces, crust, mantle, iron core, few moons, and no rings.
- 24. A region of very tightly packed gas in the sun's interior where energy is transferred mainly in the form of light.
- 26. A dark area of gas on the sun's surface that is cooler than surrounding gases.
- 28. The outermost layer of the sun's interior.
- 32. the second smallest planet and the farthest known from the sun
- 33. The solid inner core of a comet.
- 35. the second nearest planet to the sun
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- 1. The fuzzy outer layer of a comet.
- 2. The trapping of heat by a planet's atmosphere.
- 5. A model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars.
- 6. The region of the solar system, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, where many asteroids are found.
- 8. The name often given to the first four outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- 11. the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun
- 14. The central region of the sun, where nuclear fission takes place.
- 15. A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere.
- 18. A thin disk of small ice and rock particles surrounding a planet
- 19. A chunk of rock or dust in space.
- 20. A stream of electrically charged particles that emanate from our solar system.
- 22. oval shaped orbits
- 23. An oval shape, which may be elongated or nearly circular; the shape of the planet's orbits.
- 25. A doughnut-shaped region that stretches from beyond Neptune's orbit to about 100 times Earth's distance from the sun.
- 27. A meteoroid that passes through the atmosphere and hits Earth's atmosphere.
- 29. large, gaseous planet with rings, dark-colored storms, and eight moons; has a distinctive blue-green color
- 30. A spherical region of comets that surrounds the solar system.
- 31. the 3rd planet from the sun
- 34. a giant planet which is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles