Crossword puzzle in physical science

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Across
  1. 2. - the smallest and the fastest of our neighbors, is somewhat larger than the moon and similar in appearance.
  2. 4. - Like the first quarter, it is seen illuminated on half the side facing the earth. The third quarter moon rises about midnight, is highest at dawn and sets about noon. In the morning it is in the western sky.
  3. 5. - either of the two times in the year: the summer solstice and winte solstice
  4. 12. - astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the sun
  5. 13. - in the solar system is a large round object that orbits the sun and has cleared out most of the other objects in its orbit.
  6. 14. - is considered as the greatest of the early Greek astronomers who compared and observed the brightness of the 850 stars and arranged them into order of brightness or magnitude.
  7. 15. - the sun and all of the planets, comets, etc. that revolve around it.
  8. 17. - Half the side of the moon facing the earth appears illuminated. It rises about noon, reaches its high point for the day at sundown, and sets near midnight.
  9. 20. - Earth is assumed to the center of all
  10. 23. - shrinking; describes the moon when the illuminated is decreasing
  11. 24. - the shape of the earth.
  12. 25. - very first Greek to profess the heliocentric views
  13. 26. - gave the most accurate size during their time.
  14. 27. -A natural object that orbits a larger object.
  15. 28. -was believed to be at fixed position in the sky, however when the Greeks traveled,to places nearer the equator, like• Egypt, they noticed that it is closer to the horizon
  16. 29. - was a studentor Plato. For him, the earth is spherical in shape since it always casts a curved shadow when it eclipses the moon.
Down
  1. 1. - the first successful attempt to determine the size of the arth was made by him by applying geometric principles;
  2. 3. - believed that the Earth was the center of the universe.
  3. 6. - The whole side of the moon is now illuminated to viewers from the earth. The full moon rises in the east as the sun sets in the west. It stays up all night long, reaching its highest point about midnight. In summer, it is as low in the sky as the sun is at noon in midwinter.
  4. 7. - one of the cyclically recurring apparent forms of the moon
  5. 8. - the figure of the moon that appears as a curve with pointy ends
  6. 9. -a type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the light from the Sun.
  7. 10. - an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another one between it
  8. 11. - was ableto explain what causes the phases of the moon, To him, the moon shone only by reflected sunlight.
  9. 16. - is the second planet from the sun. It is brighter than Mercury in the sky and is easily seen near the sun at either sunup or sunset.
  10. 18. - planets moves in the opposite* direction for some time, after which it resume its eastward motion
  11. 19. - the figure of the moon that is more than half full, looking swollen on one side.
  12. 21. - growing ; describes the moon when the illuminated portion is increasing
  13. 22. - appears only when the moon is on the side of the earth most directly in line with the sun. There is no illumination on the earth's side, so it is also sometimes called the dark moon.
  14. 26. - proposed a system of fixed spheres. He believed that the sun, moon and the five known planets and the stars were attached to these spheres which carried the heavenly bodies while they revolved around the stationary Earth.