Across
- 2. It’s a space of partial illumination between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light.
- 3. an event in which a planet's subsolar point passes through its Equator.
- 4. any circle drawn around Earth divides it into two equal halves.
- 6. An imaginary line that splits down the middle of the Earth.
- 7. It is an eclipse in which a thin outer ring of the sun's disk is not covered by the smaller dark disk of the moon.
- 10. the angle a planet's rotation axis makes
- 12. the motion around the sun
- 13. A conical shadow excluding all light from a given source.
- 14. the state or period of an eclipse when light from the eclipsed body is totally obscured
- 15. It’s the point where the Sun appears to reach either its highest or lowest point in the sky for the year
- 16. It’s the location on an object's orbit around the earth that is farthest from the planet's core, such as a satellite.
- 17. occurs when the Sun, Earth, and Moon align so that the Moon passes into Earth's shadow.
Down
- 1. It’s the location on an object's orbit around the earth that is closest to the planet's core, such as a satellite.
- 5. It’s the point in the path of a heavenly body that is nearest to the sun.
- 7. It is the locaton in the orbit of a planet, comet, or other body most distant from the Sun.
- 8. occurs when the Moon moves in front of the Sun, blocking some of the Sun's light on Earth either completely or partially.
- 9. measures the distance north or south of the equator.
- 11. objects spinning motion