Earth in Space Unit Project Crossword Puzzle! (By: Carlos C.)

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