Across
- 2. a system of organizing time the beginning,length,and divisions of a year
- 4. chunks of rock or dust from space
- 9. large round pits
- 11. the sinning of the earth on its axis
- 14. an object that orbits the sun
- 16. a tide with the least difference between consecutive low and high tides
- 17. occurs when the moon passes directly between the sun and the earth
- 18. occurs at a full moon
- 21. a pattern or group of stars that people imagined to represent a figure, animal, or object
- 24. a body that orbits a planet
- 25. when an object in space comes between the sun and a third object causing a shadow.
- 27. the greatest difference between consecutive low and high tides
- 29. the darkest part of the moons shadow
- 30. an imaginary line that passes through earths center and the earth north and south poles
Down
- 1. stats that every object in the universe attracts every other object
- 3. the larger part of the shadow
- 5. push or pull
- 6. the rise and fall of ocean water
- 7. keeps objects in orbit
- 8. dark flat areas
- 10. the moment of one object around another
- 12. means equal night
- 13. sudden bright streaks
- 15. cold mixture of dust and ice that gives up a long trail of light
- 19. the day when the sun appears farthest north
- 20. a slightly elongated circle or ellipse.
- 22. a giant ball of hot gas
- 23. the amount of matter in an object
- 26. The measure of force and gravity on an object
- 28. the different shapes you of the moon from earth