Moon vocabulary

2. an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination.
4. the shape of the visible part of the moon when it is less than half full.
6. the movement of an object in a circular or elliptical course around another or about an axis or center.
8. an imaginary line about which a body rotates.
9. move or cause to move into a sloping position.
12. each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun.

1. a half of a celestial sphere
3. the action of rotating around an axis or center.
5. The lunar phase or phase of the moon is the shape of the illuminated (sunlit) portion of the Moon as seen by an observer on Earth.
7. the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
10. (of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size.
11. (of the moon between new and full) have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated, increasing its apparent size.