Astronomy Vocab Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. eclipse, An eclipse in which the sun is covered by the moon
- 3. The one day per year in which the sun appears highest in the sky
- 6. A body that orbits a planet
- 7. tide, A tide with the least difference between low and high tides
- 9. between high and low water
- 13. The tendency of an object to resist change in motion
- 14. The movement of one object around another
- 17. A model that shows Earth as the center
- 18. The darkest part of the shadow where the light from the sun is blocked
- 20. side The lunar hemisphere that always faces away from Earth
- 21. The phase in which the moon's visible surface area is getting
Down
- 1. A model that shows the sun as the center
- 4. A large cavity in the ground or on the surface of a planet/moon
- 5. The moon after New moon and before Full moon
- 8. eclipse, When the moon moves into Earth's shadow
- 10. When night and day are the same length all around Earth
- 11. tide, A tide after a new/full moon when there is the biggest
- 12. A large basalt plain on the surface of the moon
- 15. The shadow where the sun is only a little blocked
- 16. The name of Earth's moon
- 19. The spinning of Earth on its axis