Moon - 4th grade

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Across
  1. 2. an angle of the moon to the earth so it appears differently every day
  2. 3. the time needed for Earth to complete one rotation (24 hours)
  3. 5. something that happens in a regular and repeated way
  4. 10. to make a complete spin on its axis, causing one day
  5. 13. the moon phase where half of the lighted surface is visible; it is a waning moon
  6. 15. the moon phase when half of the lighted surface is visible; it is a waxing moon
  7. 16. the time when the sun is on the other side of the Earth from you and you can’t see it’s light
  8. 17. the moon phase when the moon appears to be completely illuminated
Down
  1. 1. the way something looks
  2. 4. the moon phase when it’s dark side is toward the Earth
  3. 6. a natural object that revolves around a planet
  4. 7. one of the twelve parts in which the year is divided into
  5. 8. when the moon is decreasing in size
  6. 9. when the moon is increasing in size
  7. 11. an imaginary line through the center of a planet, such as Earth, that the planet spins around
  8. 12. to become different
  9. 14. to move around, or orbit, another object
  10. 18. the path an object in space takes as it revolves around another object (example: Earth orbits around the sun