Across
- 3. The moon phase where the entire illuminated face is visible
- 4. Describes the moon appearing to grow larger
- 8. The imaginary line that passes through the earth from North to South
- 10. Describes the moon appearing to shrink
- 11. Caused by the tilt of the Earth and it’s revolution around the sun
- 12. The moon phase where it appears there is no moon
- 17. Causes the day and night cycle on Earth
- 18. A moon that is half illuminated
- 19. Earth is _______ to approximately 23.5 degrees
- 20. The hemisphere we live in!
- 21. Occurs when the hemisphere is tilted away from the sun
Down
- 1. Occurs when the hemisphere is tilted toward the sun
- 2. One year on Earth
- 5. A moon that is more than half illuminated
- 6. The _______ of the moon show how the moon appears to change shape over a month
- 7. A moon that is less than half illuminated
- 9. The Earth revolves around the _______
- 13. Takes approximately 27 days to revolve around the earth
- 14. The path that the Earth takes to move around the sun
- 15. The imaginary line that runs through the middle of the earth horizontally
- 16. The _______ takes 24 hours to rotate on it’s axis