Vocab practice

3. The point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth
7. A conical shadow excluding all light from a given source
11. The state or period of an eclipse when light from the eclipsed body is totally obscured
12. The angle between the planet’s rotational axis and its orbital axis
13. The point farthest from the sun in the path of an orbiting celestial body
15. An event in which a planet's subsolar point passes through its equator
17. An object’s spinning motion about its own axis
18. When the moon passes between the sun and the earth

1. The point where the sun appears to reach either its highest or lowest point in the sky for the year
2. The area of partial illumination “between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light”
4. One of the halves of the earth as divided by the equator or by a meridian
5. The object's orbital motion around another object
6. An eclipse of the sun in which the moon is too distant to cover the sun completely
8. The point, in an orbit about the earth that is farthest from the earth
9. The point in the path of a heavenly body ( as a planet) that is nearest to the sun.
10. Measures the distance north or south of the equator
14. lipase Occurs when the sun, earth, and moon align so that the moon's solar eclipses earth’s shadow
16. An imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial body