Across
- 3. Chunks of rock and dust from space.
- 7. The study of the moons, stars, and other objects in space.
- 8. Moon's flat areas, hardened rock caused by huge lava flows.
- 10. A device built to look at objects in space, making them closer than they appear.
- 12. A tide with the greatest difference between consecutive and low and high tides.
- 14. When an object in space comes between the sun and a third object, it casts a shadow on that object, causing an eclipse.
- 15. The path taken while making a revolution.
Down
- 1. The different shapes of the moon you see from Earth.
- 2. Occurs when a new moon blocks your view of the sun.
- 4. The very darkest part of the moons shadow, cone shaped.
- 5. Large round pits.
- 6. An imaginary line that passes through the middle of the Earth.
- 9. A tide with the least difference between the low and high tides, occurring twice a month, caused by the sun's pull at the right angles to the moon's pull.
- 11. The rise and fall of the ocean that occurs every 12.5 hours.
- 13. Larger, less dark part of the moons shadow.