Astronomy Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. How many days between a new moon and a full moon
  2. 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
  3. 5. The closest planet to the Sun
  4. 8. The phrase of when the moon is appearing to get smaller every day
  5. 10. An imaginary line that passes through the north and south poles
  6. 11. The planet with no actual surface
  7. 12. What do we call the time when the Earth rotates, and the first rays of sunlight fall on a particular place?
  8. 15. If the southern hemisphere is in Summer, then the Northern Hemisphere is in ....
Down
  1. 1. The abbrievation of Greenwich Mean Time
  2. 2. A system in which the planets all revolve around the Sun
  3. 5. The large round object that circles the Earth and that shines at night by reflecting light from the sun.
  4. 6. A celestial body that revolves around the su
  5. 7. The planet with numerous rings
  6. 9. The force that pulls on the oceans to form the tides is called a .... pull.
  7. 13. The shape of Earth
  8. 14. The number of high tides that we have each day