Unit 5 Pausing Point 1

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Across
  1. 3. very cold or freezing
  2. 5. largest of the gas giant planets with more than 60 known moons
  3. 7. the Earth does this on its axis which results in day and night
  4. 10. an instrument astronomers use to transmit weather information as it orbits the Earth
  5. 11. Earth's closest neighbor; a thick, cloudy atmosphere holds in the heat from the sun making it very hot
  6. 12. the spiral galaxy that Earth is a part of
Down
  1. 1. these objects orbit our sun and sometimes enter our atmosphere
  2. 2. last of the rocky planets: rust in the surface rocks gives it a red-color
  3. 4. to flow or trail
  4. 6. these eight objects orbit the sun in our solar system
  5. 8. Earth is the third planet and gets just the right amount of this
  6. 9. a very large cluster of billions of stars, dust and gas held together by gravity