Sun Earth Moon Vocabulary Practice

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Across
  1. 3. the darkest part of the shadow
  2. 4. describes a model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars
  3. 5. the periodic rise and fall of the level of water in the ocean
  4. 6. tide with the least difference between the low and high tides
  5. 9. the one day per year where the sun appears highest in the sky, occurs when the Northern & Southern hemisphere is at its strongest tilt toward the sun
  6. 11. movement of an object around another object
  7. 12. the oval shape of the planet's orbit
  8. 13. the part of the shadow surrounding the darkest part
  9. 15. tide with the greatest difference between low and high tides
Down
  1. 1. describes a model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun
  2. 2. path of an object as it revolves around another object in space
  3. 7. the partial or total blocking of on e object in space by another
  4. 8. occurs when the sun passes directly overhead at noon and neither hemisphere is tilted toward the sun
  5. 10. the different shapes of the moon that you see
  6. 14. the imaginary line that passes through a planet's center and its north and south poles
  7. 16. spinning motion of a planet on its axis