Random Review Round-Up
Across
- 4. A burst of energy from the Sun near sunspots.
- 6. All frozen water on Earth.
- 9. Energy from the Sun reaching Earth as electromagnetic waves.
- 11. Magma reaching Earth’s surface to form landforms.
- 12. A sliver of growing moonlight after New Moon.
- 13. The Sun and all objects orbiting it.
- 14. Nebula Gas expelled by a dying star, leaving a white dwarf.
- 16. A cooler, darker area on the Sun caused by magnetic activity.
- 18. Spot A fixed area where mantle heat forms volcanoes.
- 19. The joining of atomic nuclei to form heavier elements and release energy.
Down
- 1. Heat-driven flow in the mantle that moves tectonic plates.
- 2. How easily water flows through soil or rock.
- 3. Planets orbit the Sun in elliptical paths.
- 5. Eruptions that release gases and materials from Earth’s interior.
- 7. Permanently frozen ground storing carbon.
- 8. A crack in Earth’s crust where movement happens.
- 10. Sequence Star A stable star fusing hydrogen into helium.
- 15. Light stretched to longer wavelengths as objects move away from Earth.
- 16. One tectonic plate sinking beneath another into the mantle.
- 17. Formation Breakdown of rock and organic matter to create soil.