Science Vocab-Sophia Neary

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Across
  1. 1. One of the different apparent shapes of the moon as seen from Earth
  2. 5. A system of organizing time that defines the beginning, length, and division of a year
  3. 8. A ball of hot gas, primarily hydrogen and helium, that undergoes nuclear fusion
  4. 15. The movement of an object around another object
  5. 17. The scientific law that states that every object in the universe attracts every other object
  6. 19. The blocking of sunlight to Earth that occurs when the moon is directly between the sun and Earth
  7. 21. Either two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is titled toward or away from the sun
  8. 22. The tide with the least difference between consecutive low and high tides
  9. 23. The periodic rise and fall of the level of water in the ocean
  10. 25. The spinning motion of a planet on its axis
Down
  1. 2. The partial or total blocking of one object in space by another
  2. 3. The darkest part of a shadow
  3. 4. The attractive force between objects the force that moves objects downhill
  4. 5. A loose collection of ice and dust that orbits the sun, typically in a long, narrow orbit
  5. 6. The blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and the moon
  6. 7. Either two days on the same year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance
  7. 9. A chunk of rock or dust in space, generally smaller than an asteroid
  8. 10. Dark, flat ares on the moon surface formed from huge ancient lava flows
  9. 11. An object that orbits a star, is a large enough to have become rounded by its own gravity, and has cleared the area if its orbit.
  10. 12. A pattern or grouping of stars that people imagine to represent a figure or object
  11. 13. The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space
  12. 14. An object that orbits a planet
  13. 16. The tide with the greatest difference between consecutive low and high tides
  14. 18. An imaginary line that passes through a planet's center and it's north and south poles, about which the planet rotates
  15. 20. A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's surface
  16. 24. A large round pit caused by the impact of a meteoroid