Unit 3B Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Phases the different appearances of the moon from Earth throughout the month
  2. 3. a force of attraction between two objects due to their masses.
  3. 7. a natural or artificial body that revolves around a celestial body that is greater in mass.
  4. 9. the movement when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator.
  5. 11. Tide a tide of minimum range that occurs during the first and third quarters of the moon.
Down
  1. 1. Tide a tide of increased range that occurs two times a month, at the new and full moons.
  2. 4. the spin of a body on its axis.
  3. 5. the point at which the Sun is as far north or as far south of the equator as possible.
  4. 6. the time required for Earth to orbit once around the Sun.
  5. 8. one fourth of a year that has different weather in it’s time
  6. 10. the time for Earth to rotate once on its axis.