Earth and Moon in Space Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. the study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space
  2. 4. a push or a pull exerted on an object
  3. 5. blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when the earth is directly between the sun and the moon
  4. 7. two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
  5. 9. dark flat areas on the moon's surface formed from ancient lava flows
  6. 14. tendency of an object to resist a change in motion
  7. 15. part of the shadow surrounding the darkest part
  8. 16. two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away the sun
  9. 18. attractive force between objects
  10. 19. the spinning motion of a planet on its axis
Down
  1. 1. blocking of sunlight on earth that occurs when the moon is between the sun and the earth
  2. 3. one of the different apparent shapes of the moon as seen from earth
  3. 6. partial of total blocking of one object in space by another
  4. 8. darkest part of a shadow
  5. 10. the movement of an object around another object
  6. 11. imaginary line that passes through earth's center and the north and south pole
  7. 12. the path of an object as it revolves around object in space
  8. 13. periodic rise and fall of the level of water of the ocean
  9. 17. large round pit caused by the impact of meteroids