Across
- 3. These tides cause a low tidal range meaning that they have low high tides and high low tides
- 8. The number of tides there are in a day
- 10. The spinning of Earth on its axis
- 11. light on the RIGHT side of the moon
- 14. Occurs during a full moon when the moon is directly behind the Earth
- 15. Occurs during a new moon when the moon passes between Earth and the sun, blocking the sunlight from reaching earth.
Down
- 1. The movement of one object around another object
- 2. The study of the moon, stars and other objects in space
- 4. The amount of time it takes Earth to rotate (spin on its axis) once
- 5. The time it takes for the Earth to complete one revolution around the sun
- 6. Earth has these because its axis is titled as it moves around the sun.
- 7. Light on the RIGHT side of the moon
- 9. Tides that occur during a full or new moon
- 12. the rise and fall of the ocean's water that occur due to the gravitational pull by the moon.
- 13. The different shapes of the moon you see from Earth