Astronomy Crossword
Across
- 3. How many days between a new moon and a full moon
- 4. Two times of the year when the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in a "nearly" equal amount of daylight and darkness
- 5. The closest planet to the Sun
- 8. The phrase of when the moon is appearing to get smaller every day
- 10. An imaginary line that passes through the north and south poles
- 11. The planet with no actual surface
- 12. What do we call the time when the Earth rotates, and the first rays of sunlight fall on a particular place?
- 15. If the southern hemisphere is in Summer, then the Northern Hemisphere is in ....
Down
- 1. The abbrievation of Greenwich Mean Time
- 2. A system in which the planets all revolve around the Sun
- 5. The large round object that circles the Earth and that shines at night by reflecting light from the sun.
- 6. A celestial body that revolves around the su
- 7. The planet with numerous rings
- 9. The force that pulls on the oceans to form the tides is called a .... pull.
- 13. The shape of Earth
- 14. The number of high tides that we have each day