The Planets: Ice Worlds
Across
- 5. The object with mountains ice blades and craters on its surface is ____.
- 6. Triton is covered in frozen ______.
- 7. Voyager used the ______________ of other planets to give itself a speed boost.
- 10. In terms of temperature Neptune is _____ than Uranus.
- 12. The ______ (2 words) is made up of frozen lumps of water ammonia and methane.
- 13. Pluto is now considered a _____ (2 words).
- 14. Pluto’s interior generates heat through radioactive ____.
- 15. The most remote primitive body we have visited is _____ (2 words).
- 17. Triton is unusual because its spin is ______ to Neptune’s.
- 19. The gas that makes Uranus look blue is ______.
- 20. The most recent spacecraft to visit Pluto is ____ (2 words).
- 22. Winds on Neptune are the _____ in the solar system.
- 23. Pluto was demoted because it doesn’t _____ its orbit.
Down
- 1. ____ is the largest of Neptune’s moons.
- 2. As Triton warms pressure builds up below the surface and forms _____.
- 3. Uranus doesn’t have big storms because there is not enough _____ to drive them.
- 4. The heat on Neptune is created by a buildup of ______.
- 8. New Horizons’ last picture was of Pluto’s ________.
- 9. Uranus orbits like it has been ______ over on its side.
- 11. The big storm on Neptune is called the _____ (3 words).
- 16. The _____ probe was the first to visit the outer planets.
- 18. Chemically Uranus and Neptune are _______.
- 21. Scientists think there might be a layer of liquid _____ below Pluto’s surface.