Astronomy-Albright-6th grade science

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Across
  1. 4. A system of organizing a time that defines the beginning, Length, and the divisions of a year
  2. 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.
  3. 8. The movement of an object around another object
  4. 9. the fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 14. a fixed luminous point in the night sky
  8. 15. determined by, or resembling the moon.
  9. 18. a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern
  10. 19. the season of spring.
  11. 21. a small body moving in the solar system that would become a meteor if it entered the earth's atmosphere.
  12. 22. a celestial object consisting of ice and dust
  13. 24. The spinning motion of a planet on its axis
  14. 25. The path of an object as it revolves around another object
Down
  1. 1. An objects that orbit a star
  2. 2. each of the aspects of the moon or a planet, according to the amount of its illumination,
  3. 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.
  4. 6. an eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon.
  5. 7. he shadow cast by the earth or moon over an area experiencing a partial eclipse.
  6. 10. a flying rock
  7. 11. An object that orbits a planet
  8. 13. the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator when day and night are of equal length
  9. 16. a tide just after the first or third quarters of the moon when there is least difference between high and low water.
  10. 17. Either of the two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
  11. 20. an imaginary line about which a body rotates.
  12. 21. the female of a horse or other equine animal.
  13. 23. is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center