Eclipses and Tides
Across
- 4. When the Sun appears to have a dark shadow on a small fraction of the Moon’s surface.
- 8. When the Moon in front of the Sun looks like a dark disk on top of a larger sun-coloured disk.
- 11. The planet in which humans live.
- 12. The lowest water level of a tidal cycle.
- 13. When the Earth completely blocks direct sunlight from reaching the Moon.
- 14. Occurs occurs when the moon moves in between the Sun and the Earth, blocking the light of the Sun from reaching Earth.
- 15. When the tidal force causes Earth’s oceans to bulge out on the side closest to and farthest from the moon.
- 16. When the Earth moves in between the Sun and the Moon and blocks the sunlight that is reflected on the Moon.
- 17. When an area experiences two high and two low tides per lunar day.
Down
- 1. When the Sun, Moon and Earth are in a direct line.
- 2. It is the innermost and darkest part of a shadow, where the light source is completely blocked.
- 3. Occurs when only a part of the Moon enters Earth's shadow.
- 4. When only the outer shadow of the Earth falls on the Moon’s surface.
- 5. The star in which the Earth orbits.
- 6. When an area experiences two high and two low tides of different size every lunar day.
- 7. A regular pattern of one high tide and one low tide each lunar day.
- 9. A celestial body that orbits the Earth.
- 10. The partially shaded outer region of a shadow.