Earth-Moon-Sun Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. It’s a space of partial illumination between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light.
  2. 3. an event in which a planet's subsolar point passes through its Equator.
  3. 4. any circle drawn around Earth divides it into two equal halves.
  4. 6. An imaginary line that splits down the middle of the Earth.
  5. 7. It is an eclipse in which a thin outer ring of the sun's disk is not covered by the smaller dark disk of the moon.
  6. 10. the angle a planet's rotation axis makes
  7. 12. the motion around the sun
  8. 13. A conical shadow excluding all light from a given source.
  9. 14. the state or period of an eclipse when light from the eclipsed body is totally obscured
  10. 15. It’s the point where the Sun appears to reach either its highest or lowest point in the sky for the year
  11. 16. It’s the location on an object's orbit around the earth that is farthest from the planet's core, such as a satellite.
  12. 17. occurs when the Sun, Earth, and Moon align so that the Moon passes into Earth's shadow.
Down
  1. 1. It’s the location on an object's orbit around the earth that is closest to the planet's core, such as a satellite.
  2. 5. It’s the point in the path of a heavenly body that is nearest to the sun.
  3. 7. It is the locaton in the orbit of a planet, comet, or other body most distant from the Sun.
  4. 8. occurs when the Moon moves in front of the Sun, blocking some of the Sun's light on Earth either completely or partially.
  5. 9. measures the distance north or south of the equator.
  6. 11. objects spinning motion