Moon Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 4. when the moon appears to get smaller each night as it goes from full moon to new moon
- 7. when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun
- 8. when the moon makes one complete circle around the Earth
- 10. The phase of the moon when it appears fully illuminated
- 11. a lowland plain of hardened lava
- 12. an imaginary line which a body rotates
- 13. when the moon appears larger each night as it goes from new moon to full moon
Down
- 1. a loose layer of rock and dust
- 2. when the moon passes directly behind the Earth into its shadow
- 3. are deep channels that run through the Moon's maria
- 5. when the moon is only half visible
- 6. a round solid figure (the shape of the earth)
- 9. - the path an artificial satellite does around another Earth
- 11. the thing that controls our tides