Across
- 3. Color that can penetrate the ocean water the deepest
- 4. distance measured by marine and air navigators
- 6. early steps of organisms forming from organic building blocks
- 7. massive spheres of incandescent gas
- 8. how stars and planets were formed
- 11. protects us from UV rays
- 14. largest ocean, 1/3 of Earth's surface
- 15. every chemical element that made the planets,stars,oceans, and organisms is made of this
- 16. iron sunk to the middle of the planet and lighter minerals migrated to the surface forming Earth's crust
- 19. deepest points on Earth
- 24. this is why stars shine
- 26. our galaxy is the spiraled
- 27. release of volatile substances and water vapor and cause massive clouds in upper atmosphere
- 28. cloud of cold dust and gas within a galaxy
- 29. where life arose
- 31. clumping smaller particles into larger masses
- 32. 4.5% is covered in ice
Down
- 1. occurred 15 billion years ago and beginning of the universe
- 2. Smallest, coldest,and is also known as the Northern Sea
- 5. imaginary line running mostly along the 180 degree meridian
- 9. saltiest sea
- 10. the primary reference line drawn around the Earth that connects the poles
- 11. 5.5% is covered in ice
- 12. Continent of the South Pole
- 13. Edwin Hubble found that universe is still expanding
- 17. star's core will eventually collapse in an explosion
- 18. Primary reference line of latitude
- 20. type of motion an object floating in the water has
- 21. name of ancient super continent
- 22. lines of latitude
- 23. Ocean that connects the Polar waters
- 25. general shape of the Earth
- 30. political boundary separates North and South America
