Unit 5 Earth Moon Sun
Across
- 3. the darkest part of a shadow
- 4. Earth completes a full revolution around the sun in 365 1/4 days
- 7. this is characterized by a pattern of temperature and other weather trends
- 11. the motion of a body that travels around another body in space
- 12. a force exerted on all objects that have mass, that pulls other objects with mass toward themselves
Down
- 1. phases as the moon revolves around Earth, the portion of the moon that reflects sunlight back to Earth changes, causing the moon's appearance to change
- 2. The time it takes a planet to complete one full rotation on its axis
- 5. an event during which one object in space casts a shadow onto another
- 6. the spinning of a body, such as a planet, on its axis
- 7. a body that orbits a larger body
- 8. the area of sunlight is at a maximum in one hemisphere and at a minimum in the other hemisphere
- 9. sunlight shines equally on the northern and southern hemispheres
- 10. spreading cone of lighter shadow