The Sun-Earth-Moon Crossword
Across
- 4. The closest point in the Moon's orbit to Earth
- 7. Long trails of ejecta
- 8. A layer of loose ground-up rock on the Moon's surface
- 13. Dark, relatively smooth plains of the Moon
- 14. The spinning of the Earth around its axis
- 15. The percentage of incoming sunlight that the surface of the Moon reflects
- 16. When the moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth and blocks the Sun from view
Down
- 1. Period when the sun is overhead at its furthest distance either North or South of the equator
- 2. The movement of the Earth around the Sun in a fixed path
- 3. Valleylike structures on the Moon that might be collapsed lava tubes
- 5. Material blasted out during impacts from objects from space that fall back onto the Moon's surface
- 6. The furthest point in the Moon's orbit to Earth
- 9. heavily cratered regions of the moon that are light in color and mountainous
- 10. Time of year during which Earth's axis is at a 90 degree angle to the Sun
- 11. These are formed when objects from space crash into the lunar surface
- 12. When the Moon passes behind Earth in relation to the Sun and through Earth's shadow