Astronomy-Albright-6th grade science
Across
- 4. A system of organizing a time that defines the beginning, Length, and the divisions of a year
- 5. the alternate rising and falling of the sea, usually twice in each lunar day at a particular place, due to the attraction of the moon and sun.
- 8. The movement of an object around another object
- 9. the fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object
- 12. a large, bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on the surface of a planet or the moon, typically one caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite or other celestial body.
- 13. an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination.
- 14. a fixed luminous point in the night sky
- 15. determined by, or resembling the moon.
- 18. a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern
- 19. the season of spring.
- 21. a small body moving in the solar system that would become a meteor if it entered the earth's atmosphere.
- 22. a celestial object consisting of ice and dust
- 24. The spinning motion of a planet on its axis
- 25. The path of an object as it revolves around another object
Down
- 1. An objects that orbit a star
- 2. each of the aspects of the moon or a planet, according to the amount of its illumination,
- 3. Newton's Slaw of universal gravitation states that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers.
- 6. an eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon.
- 7. he shadow cast by the earth or moon over an area experiencing a partial eclipse.
- 10. a flying rock
- 11. An object that orbits a planet
- 13. the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator when day and night are of equal length
- 16. a tide just after the first or third quarters of the moon when there is least difference between high and low water.
- 17. Either of the two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
- 20. an imaginary line about which a body rotates.
- 21. the female of a horse or other equine animal.
- 23. is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center