Science crossword
Across
- 2. when the Moon passes into Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to darken and sometimes turn red.
- 5. the branch of science that deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole.
- 6. the time the moon takes to go around the earth
- 7. a tide just after the first or third quarters of the moon when there is least difference between high and low water
- 9. the action of rotating around an axis
- 12. the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun reaches its maximum or minimum declination, marked by the longest and shortest days
- 14. the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of approximately equal length
- 15. when one object orbits another object
Down
- 1. an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination
- 3. the fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object, especially the area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.
- 4. when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, blocking the Sun's light and casting a shadow on Earth
- 8. The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass
- 10. the alternate rising and falling of the sea, usually twice in each lunar day at a particular place, due to the attraction of the moon and sun.
- 11. the partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object.
- 13. an exceptionally high high tide and an exceptionally low low tide, caused by the alignment of the Sun and Moon's gravitational forces during the new or full moon