vocab
Across
- 2. Getting smaller
- 4. division of the year because of Earth's rotation
- 5. Furthest extent of the tide on a shoreline
- 6. 19 years, when a new moon falls on the same day
- 8. Phase of the moon when it is bulging, but not full
- 9. an angled or sloped position
- 10. very long-period waves that move through the ocean in response to the forces exerted by the moon and sun
- 11. a tide just after a new or full moon, when there is the greatest difference between high and low water
- 13. orbital motion around another object
- 14. The Moon's sunlit proportion as seen from Earth
- 16. Opposite of high tide
Down
- 1. Pull of gravity
- 2. Getting bigger
- 3. "C" shaped moon
- 5. half of a sphere
- 7. spinning on an axis
- 12. Moderate tide
- 15. imaginary line on which a body rotates