The Earth-Sun-Moon System
Across
- 2. A thin silver of the moon becomes visible and continues to grow.
- 4. The visible fraction of the sunlit moon continues to decrease.
- 7. A star that points north.
- 9. The path that a body follows as it travels around another body
- 16. A group of stars that form a shape.
- 17. When they are in the same line
- 20. Closest star from Earth
- 21. Change in the sunlit area
- 22. From Earth's Northern Hemisphere, the right half of the moon appears fully lit.
- 23. A type of lunar eclipse
- 25. When the moon is completely blood red
Down
- 1. The sunlit fraction of the moon that is visible from Earth decreases.
- 3. Earth's natural satellite
- 5. When the sun appears to be completely blocked by the moon
- 6. When only part of the moon is passing through the umbra
- 8. A moon at the first quarter of the orbit.
- 10. The lighter larger shadow
- 11. The darker inner shadow
- 12. A moon at the beginning of each month
- 13. the shadow of the moon falls on the Earth
- 14. Shadow of one celestial body falls on another
- 15. From Earth's Northern Hemisphere, the left half of the moon appears fully lit.
- 18. When people are in the umbra.
- 19. The sunlit fraction of the moon that is visible from Earth continues to grow.
- 24. The shadow of the Earth falls on the moon