Lunar Cycle Vocab

4. - Make something visible or bright by shining light on it.
6. - A certain phase of the moon, when it's bulging outward but isn't quite full.
8. - A circle of events that repeats in a regular pattern.
11. - The shape of the visible moon during about the first week after a new moon or the last week before the next new moon.
14. - Halfway between the new moon and full moon.
15. - The sun's rays as a source of energy from which power for domestic or industrial use may be generated.
16. - Very long-period waves that move through the ocean in response to the forces exerted by the moon and sun.
18. - To decrease in size
19. - The Star that our planet orbits.

1. - The seventh phase in the cycle of phases
2. - The great size or extent of something.
3. - Latin word for Moon.
5. - The large round object that circles the Earth and that shines at night by reflecting light from the Sun.
7. - The different shapes of the Moon that we see at different times of the month.
9. - Resembling the moon.
10. - The moon's phase when its dark side is toward the earth.
12. - To increase in size
13. - The planet we all live in (3rd plant of the Solar System) and also the moon orbits our planet.
14. - Whole Moon visible.
17. - Occurs when one heavenly body such as a moon or planet moves into the shadow of another heavenly body.