Space - Sun, Earth, Moon

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Across
  1. 1. particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun
  2. 2. a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around the sun
  3. 6. day on which day and night are the same length
  4. 7. a natural satellite orbiting a planet
  5. 10. when only some of the Sun’s light is blocked by the Moon
  6. 13. energy made by atoms colliding with each other in the centre of the Sun
  7. 14. the system made up of the Sun and all the planets, dwarf planets, moons and asteroids that travel round the Sun or each other
  8. 15. when the Moon blocks the maximum amount of light from the Sun
Down
  1. 1. when the light from the Sun is blocked by the Moon
  2. 3. changes in the shape of the Moon visible on Earth
  3. 4. the period of time for an orbit of the sun
  4. 5. an imaginary straight line joining the north and south poles of the Earth
  5. 8. are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon
  6. 9. Reflected sunlight from the moon
  7. 11. when the Moon is in the Earth's shadow and appears dark
  8. 12. the path a planet moves around the sun/star or a moon moves around a planet