6.9B Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A period of the year with certain weather patterns and day lengths.
  2. 6. An imaginary line that passes through Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole.
  3. 8. Earth’s movement around the sun. Earth moves around the sun about once every 365 days.
  4. 9. Occurs when the crest of a wave reaches a coast, causing the ocean to rise to its highest level at that location.
  5. 10. Occurs when the lowest part of a wave, or the trough, reaches a coast.
Down
  1. 1. The gravitational forces of the sun and the moon combine and cause a tide with the greatest difference between consecutive low and high tides.
  2. 3. Occurs when the position of the Sun is exactly over the Equator.
  3. 4. A tide with the least difference between consecutive low and high tides.
  4. 5. The rise and fall of ocean water.
  5. 7. The day when the sun is at its greatest distance north or south of the equator.