Sun, Moon, and Earth Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. The two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun
  2. 6. an eclipse in which the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth's shadow.
  3. 8. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon
  4. 10. phase in which more than half (but less than full) of the Moon appears to be illuminated.
  5. 11. getting smaller
  6. 13. getting bigger
  7. 14. Shape of the Moon when less than half of the lit side of the moon is visible.
Down
  1. 1. The two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator. The two days with the longest and shortest amount of daylight.
  2. 2. The spinning motion of a planet on its axis
  3. 4. The movement of an object around another object
  4. 5. The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space
  5. 7. When the tidal range is greatest. (full moon and new moon)
  6. 9. eclipse, The blocking of sunlight to Earth that occurs when the moon is directly between the sun and Earth.
  7. 12. the periodic rise and fall of the water level in the oceans and other large bodies of water