Astronomy Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. this happens in one year. (365 1/4 days)
  2. 4. it takes one day for this to happen.
  3. 5. a tide just after a new or full moon where there is a great difference between high and low water.
  4. 6. the fully shaded inner region of a shadow formed by an object.
  5. 8. the foreshore or seashore
  6. 11. an eclipse where the sun is obscured by the moon
  7. 14. multiple of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another
  8. 15. where the ocean and and land between high and low tides
Down
  1. 1. an eclipse where the moon appears darkened
  2. 3. the angle from where the observer sees the moon
  3. 5. an artificial body placed in space to orbit a planet to collect information
  4. 7. an imaginary line at a 23.5 degree angle
  5. 9. a tide just after the first or third quarters of the moon
  6. 10. the rise and fall of sea levels caused by gravitational forces by the moon and sun
  7. 12. the curved path the planets take around the sun
  8. 13. partially shaded outer region of a shadow from an object