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