Earth Sun and Moon Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. The period of the moon when the visible surface of the moon decreases.
  2. 4. In summer and winter. The Earth has the longest day/night or shortest day/night depending upon which hemisphere you are in.
  3. 6. The season experienced when that hemisphere of Earth is tilted in toward the sun.
  4. 10. The season experienced when that hemisphere of Earth is tilted away from the sun.
  5. 11. The time (twice each year) at which the day and night are of equal length (~ Sept. 22 and March 20).
  6. 12. the lighter part of a shadow where light is partially blocked.
Down
  1. 1. When more of the Moon's lighted side becomes visible.
  2. 2. The blocking of sunlight to Earth that occurs when the moon is directly between the sun and Earth.
  3. 5. An imaginary line that passes through Earth's center at the North and South poles, about which Earth rotates.
  4. 7. the very darkest part of the moon's shadow.
  5. 8. The spinning motion of a planet on its axis.
  6. 9. When the Shadow of Earth falls on the Moon.