Across
- 2. revealed as ebb and flow of water on beaches and banks- 2 high and two low each day
- 3. visible moon between quarter moon and full moon- almost full
- 5. visible moon between the new and quarter moons
- 7. study of the stars, ancient study of influence of stars of human life
- 9. constellations on the ecliptic
- 13. path sun appears to travel around the earth, zodiac constellations found here
- 15. one half of the imaginary line that divides the earth in eastern and western hemispheres
- 19. knowledge and laws of the stars, modern science of cosmos
- 20. time it takes for a planet to complete one full orbit around the sun
- 21. moon fully illuminated
- 22. = sun stands, when sun appears to stand still in heavenns; longest day in summer and longest nights in winter
- 25. imaginary points on and line through the earth around which it rotates
- 26. no moon visible
- 28. time it takes for moon to complete one full orbit around the earth
Down
- 1. move around the sun, orbit
- 4. to move around an axis
- 6. surrounding the pole star
- 8. pull of sun on earth, of earth on us, of moon on water on earth
- 10. = half sphere of earth
- 11. highest high tides and lowest low tides due to alignment of sun and moon with earth
- 12. attractive force exerted by anything with mass
- 14. another name for the north star
- 16. lowest low and high tides due to moon and sun being at 90 degrees form each other in relationship to the earth.
- 17. imaginary line the divides northern and southern hemispheres of earth
- 18. time it takes for a planet to rotate on its axis
- 23. = equal night, time when days and night are equal length
- 24. getting smaller, dimmer
- 27. getting bigger, brighter