Space Vocabulary-Alexa Lopez

3. eclipse The blocking of sunlight to Earth that occurs when the moon is directly between the sun and Earth.
6. A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere.
8. Either of the two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator.
11. The attractive force between objects; the force that moves objects downhill.
12. The periodic rise and fall of the level of water in the ocean.
13. An object that orbits a planet.
14. Either of the two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun.
15. tide The tide with the greatest difference between consecutive low and high tides.
18. A pattern or grouping of stars that people imagine to represent a figure or object.
20. One of the different apparent shapes of the moon as seen from Earth.
21. The part of a shadow surrounding the darkest part.
23. Dark,flat areas on the moon's surface formed from huge ancient lava flows.
24. An imaginary line that passes through a planet's center and its north and south poles,about which the plane rotates.
25. eclipse The blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and the moon.

1. The darkest part of a shadow.
2. A loose collection of ice and dust that orbits the sun, typically in a long,narrow orbit.
4. The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space.
5. The movement of an object around another object.
7. The spinning motion of a planet on its axis.
9. The partial or total blocking of one object in space by another.
10. A chunk of rock or dust in space, generally smaller than an asteroid.
16. tide The tide with the least difference between consecutive low and high tides.
17. A system of organizing time that defines the beginning, length, and divisions of a year.
18. A large round pit caused by the impact of a meteoroid.
19. A ball of hot gas, primarily hydrogen and helium, that undergoes nuclear fusion.
21. An object that orbits a star, is large enough to have become rounded by its own gravity, and has cleared the area of its orbit.
22. of universal gravitation The scientific law that states that every object in the universe attract every other object.