Earthscience

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. A giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles (6)
  2. 6. Produced under conditions involving intense heat (7)
  3. 7. Force that pulls objects toward the Earth (7)
  4. 10. Produced by the action of water (11)
  5. 12. The smallest planet and the nearest to the sun (7)
  6. 14. The second nearest planet to the sun (5)
  7. 15. The month following February and preceding April (plural) (4)

Down

  1. 1. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet" (5)
  2. 2. A giant planet with a ring of ice particles (6)
  3. 3. A severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (9)
  4. 4. The largest planet and the 5th from the sun (7)
  5. 8. A transparent piece of ___ that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem (plural) (8)
  6. 9. A giant planet with a ring of ice particles (7)
  7. 11. An abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element (6)
  8. 12. Molten rock in the earth's crust (5)
  9. 13. Rock that in its molten form issues from volcanos (4)