Across
- 6. eclipse the blocking of the sun when the moon is directly between the earth and the sun.
- 7. a partial or full blocking of one object in space by another.
- 10. a pattern or grouping of stars that appear to represent a figure or object
- 15. a loose collection of gases that orbits around the sun typically in a long narrow orbit.
- 16. the darkest part of a shadow.
- 17. either of the two days where the sun reaches the greatest distance north and south of the equator.
- 19. the tide withe the most distance from the consecutive low and high tides.
- 20. the tide with the least distance from the consecutive low and high tides.
- 22. a large rund pit created by the impact of a meteoroid.
- 23. the path of an object going around another object in space
- 24. a chunk of rock or ice typically smaller than an asteroid.
- 25. an object that orbits a star and that is big enough to have become rounded by its own gravity
- 26. dark flat areas on the moon created by acient lava flows.
- 28. either of the two days that neither hemisphere is pointed directly toward or away from the sun.
Down
- 1. the movement of an object around another object
- 2. the blocking of sunlight to the moon when the earth is directly between the moon and the sun.
- 3. movement or tendency to move toward something.
- 4. an object that orbits a planet
- 5. the law states that everything in space is attracting to every other object.
- 8. a system of organizing a time that defines the beginning and divisions of a year.
- 9. one of the different apparent shapes on the moon.
- 11. a streak of light in the sky produced by a burning meteoroid in the earth's atmosphere
- 12. the periodic rise and fall of the water in the ocean
- 13. the area around the darkest shadow.
- 14. the attractive force between two objects pulling them closer together.
- 18. a ball of hot gas typically nitrogen and helium, that undergoes nuclear fusion
- 21. the spinning motion of a planet on its axis
- 27. an imaginary line that goes through the center north and south poles on which a planet rotates
