Across
- 1. made up of icy dust particles and frozen gases, they look like bright balls with long, feathery tails
- 3. number of planets known to orbit the sun in our solar system
- 5. made up of the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere, this is the part of the earth that all life exists
- 6. small round bodies that orbit the sun and are too small to be considered planets (2 words)
- 9. ocean containing the deepest known depression on earth
- 10. largest of the inner planets in the solar system
Down
- 2. number of continents on the earth
- 4. small, irregularly shaped, planet-like objects found mainly between Mars and Jupiter
- 7. continent where both the highest point on earth and the lowest land point on earth is found
- 8. gas that composes of 78 percent of the earth's atmosphere
