Across
- 1. The ____________ ____________ _____________, is twice as wide as Earth with winds peaking at about 400 mph
- 3. One year here lasts 682 Earth days and has two satellites
- 5. The largest satellite of Saturn
- 10. One year here last 248 Earth years
- 11. Planets that are small and rocky—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
- 12. A cloud of gas and/or dust in space
- 13. One day here lasts 243 Earth days because the planet spins backwards
- 16. ___________ is the most obvious difference between the terrestrial and Jovian planets.
- 17. One day here lasts 10 hours and 33 minutes on Earth, and one year here is 25 Earth years
- 19. The substances that make up the planets are divided into three groups: gases, rocks, and __________.
Down
- 2. The Jovian planets have very thick __________ of hydrogen, helium, methane, and ammonia.
- 4. One year here lasts 88 Earth days and has no satellites
- 5. According to the nebular________, the sun and planets formed from a rotating disk of dust and gases.
- 6. One year here is 165 Earth years, and it has 14 satellites
- 7. Small, irregularly shaped bodies formed by colliding matter
- 8. Unlikely Saturn’s icy rings full of large icy and rock chunks, they are composed of small ____________ ____________.
- 9. The planet that rotates on its sides
- 14. Mercury has the greatest _____________ extremes of any planet.
- 15. The huge gas giants—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
- 18. __________ has a mass that is 2 1/2 times greater than the mass of all the other planets and moons combined.