Unit 7: Investigating The Sun, Earth, Moon, & Tides

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Across
  1. 2. when the solar radiation is equal all throughout the Earth, but one hemisphere is moving out of summer
  2. 5. the other appropriate name for the fall season
  3. 6. the third major moon phase
  4. 8. when the Earth's axis is tilted perpendicular to the Sun, allowing for equal hours of daylight and darkness
  5. 10. imaginary line about which an object rotates
  6. 11. when more than half of the Moon (but less than full) is illuminated or in shadow
  7. 16. occurs during first and third quarter moon phases, the least amount of change between high and low tides
  8. 17. the process of an object moving in an orbit around another object of greater mass
  9. 18. occurs during new and full moon phases, the greatest difference between high and low tides
  10. 25. the gradual decrease of sunlight reflected from the Moon's surface
  11. 27. the force exerted between all objects with mass in the universe, like the sun and the Earth.
  12. 30. the first major phase, the Moon is completely enveloped in darkness
  13. 31. the final phase of the Moon with a small sliver of lit surface on the left side
  14. 33. the apparent changing patterns of the Moon's surface due to its orbit of the Earth
  15. 35. the small sliver of the Moon's surface either illuminated or in shadow
  16. 36. when the Earth rotates into the lowest level of tidal force on the bulging ocean
Down
  1. 1. when the Sun casts the Moon's shadow onto the Earth's surface
  2. 3. the reason for the seasons
  3. 4. the second minor phase where most of the Moon illuminated on the right and a small shadow on the left
  4. 7. when the Sun casts the Earth's shadow onto the Moon's surface
  5. 9. when the Earth rotates into the highest level of tidal force on the bulging ocean
  6. 12. when the solar radiation is equal all throughout the Earth, but one hemisphere is moving out of winter
  7. 13. the rising and falling of oceans due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun
  8. 14. the first minor phase with a small lit sliver on the right side of the Moon
  9. 15. the second major phase, the Moon is lit on the right half
  10. 19. the process of an object spinning on its central axis
  11. 20. the path an object in space makes around a more massive object due to gravitational attraction
  12. 21. when the solar radiation received is weakest in either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere
  13. 22. the four major changing climate patterns on the Earth due to it's tilted axis
  14. 23. the fourth major moon phase, the Moon is lit on the left half
  15. 24. the third minor phase with most of the left side of the Moon illuminated and small shadow on the right
  16. 26. the other acceptable name for the fourth major phase of the Moon
  17. 28. the name given for the NASA missions to explore the Moon
  18. 29. when the Earth's axis is tilted at it most extreme angle from the Sun
  19. 31. the gradual increase of sunlight reflected from the Moon's surface
  20. 32. refers to the same side of the Moon always facing towards the Earth due to the Moon's rotational velocity matching it's orbital velocity
  21. 34. when the solar radiation received is strongest in either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere