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