Science Game
Across
- 2. The shape of the illuminated part of the moon as it appears from earth
- 4. A moon outside our solar planet
- 5. A moon phase that looks like less than half a circle from earth
- 7. When the moon is completely dark
- 12. To shine light on an object and make it visible
- 13. The amount of time it takes for a planet to complete one orbit around a star or stars
- 14. An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see
- 15. The sun, the planets that orbit the sun, and other objects that orbit the sun
- 18. A moon phase in which the moon is not visible from earth
Down
- 1. The border between light and dark on the moon
- 3. A rocky sphere that travels around a planet
- 4. A planet outside our solar system
- 6. A moon phase that looks like a half-circle from earth
- 8. A moon phase that looks like a full circle from earth
- 9. A moon phase that looks like more than half a circle from earth
- 10. Something we observe to be similar over and over again
- 11. The nearly circular path of a smaller object (like the moon) travels around a larger object (like earth)
- 16. The relative size of things
- 17. The star that is the main source of light at the center of our solar system