Across
- 4. The spin of a celestial body around its axis
- 8. Occurs when your location is rotated a quarter of the way around Earth from where the moon is
- 9. Celestial body exerting a smaller tidal force on the Earth
- 11. Force of attraction that causes the tidal force
- 12. Rough number of days between spring and neap tides
- 14. A celestial body's path around a (usually larger) body
Down
- 1. Number of times high tide occurs in 24 hours
- 2. A place where you can observe tides
- 3. Moon phase during which some of the most dramatic tides occur (lower low tides and higher high tides)
- 5. The daily rise and fall of ocean levels due to gravity from celestial bodies
- 6. Moon phase during which number 12-down occurs
- 7. Occurs when the moon is directly overhead or exactly halfway around Earth (so on the exact opposite side)
- 10. Name for the least dramatic tides (higher low tides and lower high tides)
- 12. Type of tide that occurs when the sun, Earth, and moon are all in alginment
- 13. Celestial body exerting the largest tidal force on Earth