Earth, Sun, Moon & Stars Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. The different ways the Moon looks from Earth over about a month. Repeats every month.
  2. 4. An explanation based on evidence that is not directly observed.
  3. 5. When the right half of the lit portion of the Moon is visible to us. It comes a week after New Moon.
  4. 8. The motion of one object around another object.
  5. 11. When the Moon cannot be seen because we are looking at the unlit half of the Moon.
  6. 12. One of the twelve periods of time that a year is divided into.
  7. 14. A natural object that orbits a planet. We often see our Moon in the sky at night.
  8. 15. The path of an object around a particular point in space.
Down
  1. 2. A large object in space that is made of gas and produces its own light.
  2. 3. A pulling force between two objects. It pulls everything down to Earth.
  3. 5. When we can see the entire lit portion of the Moon.
  4. 6. When the left half of the lit portion of the Moon is visible to us. It comes a week after Full Moon.
  5. 7. A medium sized star. Closest star to Earth that provides light and heat energy.
  6. 9. What one thinks about something or somebody; not necessarily based on facts.
  7. 10. Information about the natural world gathered through the senses and/or scientific instruments.
  8. 13. The spinning of an object around an axis or center.