Moon phases

1. the final phase in the lunar cycle, preceding the New Moon.
2. the different appearances of the Moon as seen from Earth, caused by the varying amounts of its sunlit surface that we can see.
3. occurs after the Full Moon and before the Third Quarter moon.
4. occurs when the Moon is positioned between the Earth and the Sun, causing the Moon's sunlit side to face away from Earth.
7. we live on
9. occurs when less than half of the moon's visible surface is illuminated, appearing as a thin, curved sliver
11. refers to the phases of the moon where its visible surface area is decreasing.
12. a phase of the moon where more than half of the illuminated surface is visible from Earth, but it's not yet fully illuminated
16. the lunar phase where the entire, round, illuminated face of the Moon is visible from Earth
18. half of the Moon's face illuminated, resembling a half-circle

1. a thin, sliver-shaped crescent of light on the right side of the moon in the Northern Hemisphere.
3. any lunar phase between the new moon and the full moon, where the visible illuminated portion of the moon increases each night.
5. goes through the moon phases
6. occurs after the First Quarter moon and before the Full Moon, when more than half of the Moon's face is illuminated and the illuminated area is growing
8. when the Earth is positioned directly between the Sun and moon
10. when half of the Moon's face is illuminated by the Sun, and it appears as a half-circle from Earth
13. goes around the earth
14. caused by how much of the sunlit side of the Moon we can see as it orbits
15. ooks like a half-illuminated circle. One side of the moon is illuminated, and the other half is shadowed.
17. circles around