Moon & Craters Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. Getting smaller.
  2. 6. Material displaced from the land when a crater is formed.
  3. 7. A ______ crater is a crater with central peaks and ejecta thrown out in long rays.
  4. 9. The ______ quarter Moon occurs halfway between the full Moon and the new Moon.
  5. 10. The force that causes two masses to attract each other.
  6. 11. A ______ crater is a crater from a large impact that released magma from beneath the surface.
  7. 13. The ______ Moon is nearly round on the side facing the Sun, with a bulge on the other side.
  8. 18. A layer of gases that surround an object held in place by gravity.
  9. 19. A ______ eclipse occurs when Earth passes exactly between the Moon and the Sun.
  10. 20. A change in land created by an impact.
  11. 21. The ______ quarter Moon occurs halfway between the new Moon and the Full Moon.
Down
  1. 1. An object that orbits a star and is massive enough for its own gravity to force it into a spherical shape.
  2. 2. A piece of ice, rock, and dust a few kilometers in size.
  3. 3. The dark surface of cooled magma in a flooded crater.
  4. 4. Also known as a shooting star.
  5. 5. Getting bigger.
  6. 8. A piece of a meteoroid that hits the ground.
  7. 12. A small or medium sized piece of rock or metal floating in space.
  8. 14. A ______ crater is a small, bowl-shaped crater that has a fairly uniform blanket of ejecta distributed around the rim.
  9. 15. A small, rocky object that orbits the sun.
  10. 16. The ______ Moon occurs when the Moon is between Earth and the Sun, so we are looking at the dark side of the Moon.
  11. 17. A ______ eclipse occurs when the Moon passes exactly between Earth and the Sun.