Solar System Crossword v5
Across
- 2. You, plants, and animals are examples of this
- 5. Smallest of Jupiter's Galilean moons. Has subsurface ocean
- 8. Object with most of the mass (stuff) in the Solar System
- 9. Color of the sky on the Moon
- 11. Comets often have these when they get closer to the Sun
- 14. The only moon with a thick atmosphere
- 16. Venus has a thick one of these
- 20. The time for a planet to orbit the Sun once
- 22. The time it takes a planet to rotate one time
- 23. Mars is called the _____ Planet because of its color
- 24. This planet is tilted on its side as it goes around the Sun
- 25. The Sun is this kind of object.
- 27. Forms when a fast space rock hits the surface of a planet
- 28. The galaxy we live in The _____ Way.
Down
- 1. Color of the Sun (don’t look at it or your eyes could get hurt)
- 3. The Moon is ____ when we see the all the lit-up day side
- 4. The largest moon of Neptune – it has geysers
- 6. The biggest planet
- 7. Its biggest moon is Charon
- 10. these rocky objects mostly orbit between Mars and Jupiter
- 12. Pluto, Eris, and Ceres are all classified as _____ Planets
- 13. The fastest planet around the Sun
- 15. The gas we breathe to live
- 17. A natural object that orbits a planetary body
- 18. What trees and other plants use for energy.
- 19. Planet with the hottest surface in the Solar System
- 21. This planet has the most impressive rings
- 26. All the planets _____ the Sun