Solar Eclipse Key Terms

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Across
  1. 3. a thin layer of plasma that lies between the Sun’s visible surface and the corona.
  2. 7. the phase of the moon when it’s in conjunction with the sun and invisible from earth.
  3. 8. Ring-shape; of or forming a ring.
  4. 9. the sun’s light will burst from the first place that becomes uncovered, shining like a diamond that’s set on a ring.
  5. 11. the external layer of the sun which is known as the luminous envelope or the visible layer of the sun from which light as well as heat radiate.
  6. 13. one of a series of darkish narrow parallel bands seen to rush swiftly across the landscape just before or after totality in a solar eclipse probably due to optical effects of the earth’s atmosphere.
  7. 14. when the moon fully obscures the sun.
  8. 15. happens when the moon passes between the Sun and Earth but the Sun, Moon, and Earth are not perfectly lined up.
  9. 19. the moment the moon first touches the edge of the solar disk, approaching it from the right as seen from the Northern Hemisphere.
  10. 21. the apparent path of the sun throughout the course of a year.
  11. 22. areas where the magnetic field is about 2,500 times stronger than Earth’s
  12. 23. a rare eclipse that starts as an Annular eclipse and can change to a Total Eclipse, or vice versa.
  13. 26. when the outer edge of the moon last touches the sun, marks its end.
  14. 27. the lighter part of a shadow that forms at a certain distance from the object casting the shadow.
  15. 28. an eclipse in which a thin outer ring of the sun’s disk is not covered by the smaller dark disk of the moon.
  16. 29. and eclipse in which the whole of the disk of the sun or moon is obscured.
Down
  1. 1. a period of approximately 6,585.3 days.
  2. 2. the region of the complete shadow
  3. 4. obscuration the fraction of the Sun’s area occulted by the Moon.
  4. 5. a person who chases eclipses
  5. 6. a dark-gray, cone-shaped shadow.
  6. 10. the Sun’s upper atmosphere.
  7. 11. the region of the diffuse shadow
  8. 12. season the only time the Sun is close enough to one of the Moon’s nodes to allow an eclipse to occur.
  9. 16. magnitude the fraction of the Sun’s diameter that is covered by the moon.
  10. 17. the recurring increase and decrease in the number of ______ over a period averaging about eleven years.
  11. 18. the instant when the total or annular phase of a solar eclipse ends.
  12. 20. starting with Baily’s beads and the diamond ring effect.
  13. 24. the row of brilliant points of sunlight shining through valleys on the edge of the moon that are seen for a few seconds before and after the central phase in an eclipse of the sun.
  14. 25. the state of being important.