Earth, Moon and Sun Crossword
Across
- 4. The relative size of things
- 8. A Moon phase that looks like less than a half a circle from Earth
- 9. A Moon phase that looks like a full circle from Earth
- 13. An object, diagram,or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see
- 14. A moon phase that looks like a half-circle from Earth
- 17. A planet outside our solar system
- 18. A Moon phase that looks like more than half a circle from Earth
- 19. The amount of time it takes for a planet to complete one orbit around a star or stars
Down
- 1. The shape of the illuminated part of the moon as it appears from Earth
- 2. The border between light and dark on the Moon
- 3. Something we observe to be similar over and over again
- 5. A Moon outside our solar system
- 6. The star that is the main source of light at the center of our solar system
- 7. To shine light on an object and make it visible
- 10. A rocky sphere that travels around a planet
- 11. When the moon is completely dark
- 12. The nearly circular path a smaller object (like the moon) travels around a larger object(like Earth)
- 15. A moon phase in which the moon is not visible form Earth
- 16. The Sun, the planets that orbit the sun, and other objects that orbit the sun