Across
- 2. closest star to earth
- 4. The prime meridian is the main line
- 5. predominate theory of how the universe was created
- 8. a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass.
- 9. The application of all sciences to the phenomenon of the ocean
- 11. percent of land covered in ice
- 12. an imaginary line about which a body rotates.
- 15. Study of changed and motions of seawater
- 17. percentage of earth that is ocean
- 19. why stars twinkle
- 22. percentage of earth covered in ice
- 23. What percent of the land is found north of the equator
- 25. Study of distribultion and environmental aspect of life in the ocean
- 26. the earths galaxy
- 27. biggest ocean
- 29. farthest distance light can travel down the ocean
- 30. speed (velocity is measured in knots)
Down
- 1. changing saltwater to fresh water
- 3. a large lake
- 6. the year the UN established major boundaries
- 7. Locked up in polar ice caps
- 10. Have very few natural particians
- 13. release or give off (a substance) as a gas or vapor.
- 14. percent of water covered in ice
- 16. smallest continent
- 18. the equator is the main line
- 20. smallest ocean
- 21. Ridge that separates one basin from another
- 24. color that can penetrate water the deepest
- 28. circular in shape, shallower than other oceans & 3% of the world's ocean