Eclipses and Tides

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