8.7A & 8.7B
Across
- 2. - a period of time at the close of which the new moons return on the same days of the year
- 7. - The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is decreasing. The Moon appears to be partly but less than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight.
- 9. -the spinning of a planet on its axis
- 11. -an imaginary line that runs through the center of a planet from one pole to the other
- 12. - Occurs when the moon’s illumination is decreasing, Waning Crescent.
- 14. – all of the lit side of the moon faces Earth
Down
- 1. - Waxing Crescent. The moon is less than one-half illuminated by the sun but less than one quarter illuminated
- 3. – the whole lit side of the moon faces away from Earth
- 4. - Just after Full Moon, when the face of the Moon is 100% illuminated, this intermediate phase starts. It is getting smaller. The shape is less than the full circle of a Full Moon, but larger than the semicircle shape of the Third Quarter Moon.
- 5. - each of the four divisions of the year marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun
- 6. -the movement of a body in space around another body
- 8. – the shape of the sunlit portion of the moon
- 10. -the path that a revolving body follows
- 13. - the natural satellite of the earth, visible by reflected light from the sun