Earth's Place in Space

2. Mountains on the moon
3. The Earth rotates on its axis and day and ___ are created
6. The appearance of the sunlit portion of the moon.
8. A darkening of the moon as it passes through Earths shadow
11. The distance light can travel in one year
12. The third planet from the Sun
15. Each birthday you have completed another ___ around the Sun
18. The dark, flat areas of the moon from lava flows 3-4 billion years ago
19. A body in space made of rock and metal that orbits the sun
21. An imaginary line around which an object rotates
22. A point in Earths orbit where daylight is eigher the longest or the shortest

1. The distance between the Earth and the Sun
4. When the moon passes between the Earth and Sun causing a shadow to fall on the Earth
5. The motion of an object around its own axis
7. Small chuncks of ice and dirt that orbit a star with tails of streaming gas and dust
9. During a lunar eclipse the moon is in ___ moon phase
10. Small pieces of rock that have broken off a larger asteroid
13. To move in a circular orbit
14. abbreviation for astronomical units
16. A point in Earths orbit where days and nights are the same length
17. Large round pits caused by meteoroids
20. Never look directly at the dun during a solar eclipse because the sun can still ___ your eyes