The Planets: Ice Worlds

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