Ever-Changing Moon Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. large dark grey areas that are smooth on the surface of the moon
  2. 6. cycle the four-week period during which the Moon orbits Earth one time and goes through all of its phase
  3. 8. to light up
  4. 10. one spin of the plant on its axis
  5. 13. one full orbit around an object
  6. 14. moon, any phase of the moon that has more than half of its face illuminated
  7. 15. a dark area produced by an orbit coming between light and surface
Down
  1. 1. when the face of the moon looks larger each day
  2. 2. a regular repeating path that one object takes around another object or center of gravity
  3. 3. information that is not represented by numbers but by characteristic or description
  4. 4. when the face of the moon looks smaller each day
  5. 7. caused by the way the sun light hits the Earth according to the Earth's axis
  6. 9. eclipse an eclipse in which the moon appears darkened as it passes into the Earth's shadow
  7. 11. information that can be counted or measured or given a numerical value
  8. 12. an invisible line going North/South through Earth