Earth moon science vocabs

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