Unit 2 The Solar System Cumulative Review

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Across
  1. 3. What is located between Mars and Jupiter?
  2. 4. This is a natural satellite of the Earth and is held in place by gravity.
  3. 6. What model states that the sun, stars, and other planets were in their own fixed spheres that revolved around Earth?
  4. 7. The gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon cause what?
  5. 8. What are the small icy objects in our solar system that orbit the Sun and at times have tails of gas and dust?
  6. 12. This planet rotates or tilted on its side with rings and is a blue-green color,
  7. 13. What is the spinning of the Earth on its axis called?
  8. 16. This planet is the second-largest and has the largest ring system.
  9. 17. This planet, also called the "Water Planet", has an atmosphere that protects life, and surface temperatures that allow water to exist as a solid, liquid, and gas.
  10. 20. What is the shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun?
  11. 21. Another name given to the rocky planets of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
  12. 22. and Moon are in a line called?
  13. 23. This planet has a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide and has more volcanoes than Earth.
Down
  1. 1. What is the model that stated that the sun, stars and other planets were in their own fixed spheres that revolved around Earth.
  2. 2. This is the smallest of the 8 planets, has no moons, and is a terrestrial planet.
  3. 5. This planet is the coldest planet, an Gas/Ice giant, and the furthest out in our Solar System.
  4. 9. What is a "shooting star" when it burns up in the mesosphere called?
  5. 10. This star is at the center of our solar system.
  6. 11. This is called the "Red Planet" because of high iron content in soils and there are un-manned rovers exploring this planet.
  7. 14. What are the rocky objects that are made up of silicate minerals and rocky material similar to those that made up the planets called?
  8. 15. This planet is the largest planet in our Solar System and has a Great Red Spot that is a giant storm.
  9. 18. What are caused by the tilt of the Earth?
  10. 19. What is used by scientists to see objects up close and allowed scientists to discover that Earth.