Planetary Bodies
I am known as _______ Cloud: a theoretical concept of a cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 AU (0.03 to 3.2 light-years)
Oort
Also known as a twig or vine snake, I am a genus of rear-fanged venomous snakes. I am deadly because my venom is hemotoxic, affecting the blood clotting mechanism and causing uncontrolled bleeding and internal hemorrhaging. I have a narrow head, and a pointed snout, much like this animal that shares my name. (Hint: both the snake and other animal lives in trees).
bird snake
The West African Black __________: I had two horns and ate a diet consisting of leafy plants and shoots. Some believed my horns had medicinal purposes, which led to excessive poaching. I was last seen in Cameroon in 2006 and was officially declared extinct in 2011.
Verb: pen, author, draft, create, compose
wrITe
First seen on July 28, 2021, this deep sea creature is a jellyfish known as the Blood-________ Jellyfish
Red
A minor planet of the inner Solar System, metallic or rocky bodies without atmospheres. T
asteroid
I am a species of venomous snake, a pit viper, endemic to eastern North America; known for my distinctive, dark brown, hourglass-shaped markings, overlayed on a light reddish-brown or brown/gray background
copperhead
Native to North America, the __________ Pigeon has been extinct since the early 20th century. By the 19th-century pigeon meat was commercialized as cheap food for the poor, which resulted in hunting on a massive scale. This Pigeon died out in the wild by around 1900, with the last known individual dying in captivity in 1914.
Passenger
Verb :To allow the doing of (something); consent to
permIT
The term "deep sea creature" refers to _____________ (an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form) living below the photic zone of the ocean
A "_______ system" is a disc, orbiting an astronomical object, that is composed of solid material such as dust and moonlets, and is a common component of satellite systems around giant planets. Think: Saturn
I, the _____ snake (Pantherophis guttatus), am a North American species of rat snake that subdues its small prey by constriction. I am found throughout the southeastern and central United States and lack functional venom. I am harmless.
corn
Native to Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea, the Tasmanian _______ was a large carnivorous marsupial. The last wild Tasmanian ______ was killed between 1910 and 1920, with the last captive one dying in Hobart Zoo, Tasmania in 1936.
Tiger
Noun: One who edits, especially as an occupation.
edITor
My name, "__________ squid" was inspired by my dark color, and cloaklike webbing, rather than habit— I feed on detritus (ocean dandruff), not blood.
I am the smallest planet in the Solar System and the closest to the Sun
Mercury
I, the eastern ______, am a species of nonvenomous snake endemic to North America and Central America. I am fast-moving, highly active, diurnal (active in the day) snake.
racer
Sarcosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of living __________ that lived during the Early Cretaceous, from the late Hauterivian to the early Albian, 133 to 112 million years ago of what is now Africa and South America.
crocodilians
Noun: A musical instrument having a flat-backed rounded body that narrows in the middle, a long fretted neck, and usually six strings, played by strumming or plucking.
guITar
I am a rare type of deep-sea shark. I am sometimes called a "living fossil." I was named for my likeness resembling mythical ________(s) appearing in Japanese folklore.
Goblin Shark
A _________massive black hole (SMBH or sometimes SBH) is the largest type of black hole, with its mass being on the order of millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun.
super
I am a predator that lives in a wide array of habitats, hunting small animals such as birds and rodents. I received my name from this located at the end of my tails
rattlesnake
Often called _______-toothed Tigers/Lions, they existed 55 million to 11,700 years ago; carnivores named for the elongated bladelike canine teeth, which in some species were up to 50cm long. Quite bear-like in build, they were believed to be excellent hunters and hunted animals such as sloths and mammoths.
Sabre
Delicious Food: A flour tortilla wrapped around a filling, as of beef, beans, or cheese
burrITo
I am the deepest oceanic trench on Earth.
Marianas Trench