Earth, Sun, and Moon - Notes Vocabulary
Across
- 1. To shine light on an object and make it visible
- 4. Path of a smaller object traveling around a larger object
- 8. A change in an area climate due to earth's tilt and orbit around the sun.
- 9. The sun, the planets that orbit the sun, and other objects that orbit the sun
- 10. Rocky sphere that travels around a planet
- 11. Eclipse when the Sun is partially blocked out by the moon
- 14. Moon outside our solar system
- 15. a system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravity
- 16. Planet outside our solar system
Down
- 2. all existing matter and space, including billions of Galaxies.
- 3. move around another object
- 5. Shape of the illuminated part of the moon as it appears from Earth
- 6. The border between light and dark on the moon
- 7. Moon phase looking like more than half a circle from earth
- 9. The star that is the main source of light at the center of our solar system
- 12. Eclipse when the Moon is completely dark, because the earth blocks the sun
- 13. Spin in place on ones axis