Across
- 2. eclipse the blocking of sunlight to Earth that occurs when the moon is directly between the sun and Earth
- 4. the tendency of an object to resist a change in motion
- 6. two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun
- 8. An imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and the North and South poles, about which Earth rotates.
- 9. the amount of matter in an object
- 12. the movement of an object around another object
- 13. the attractive force between objects; its strength depends on their masses and the distance between them
- 14. the study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space.
Down
- 1. one of the different apparent shapes of the moon as seen from Earth
- 3. the spinning motion of a planet on its axis
- 5. the two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
- 6. the partial or total blocking of one object in space by another
- 7. A group of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity.
- 10. a push or a pull exereted on an object
- 11. eclipse the blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and the moon
