The Sun-Earth-Moon System

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Across
  1. 4. The point in its orbit where the Earth is farthest from the sun.
  2. 6. The term that describes a planet or celestial body turning on its axis.
  3. 8. Latin for "ring"
  4. 11. The direction the Moon revolves around the Earth.
  5. 13. The average number of hours between high and low tide.
  6. 14. The phase of the moon when neap tides occur.
  7. 16. Tides that have the least extreme difference between low and high.
  8. 18. The Earth experiences different seasons, because it is tilted on its _____.
  9. 19. When the moon is getting brighter on successive nights in the sky.
Down
  1. 1. The sun is in the ______ during a total eclipse.
  2. 2. Another word for counterclockwise.
  3. 3. The term that describes the orbit of one celestial body around another.
  4. 5. The phase the moon must be in to enable a lunar eclipse.
  5. 7. The point in its orbit that the moon must be in order for an annular eclipse to occur.
  6. 9. Before totality in a lunar eclipse, the moon is in the _____.
  7. 10. When a shadow is cast on the moon or the sun due the perfect alignment of the sun-earth-moon system.
  8. 12. The phases of the moon that occur between the full and new moons.
  9. 15. Tides that occur at the new and full moon.
  10. 17. The phase of the moon where moonrise and sunrise happen at the same time.