Solar System Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. more than three fourths
  2. 3. sun
  3. 4. surface is not level
  4. 6. less than one fourth
  5. 7. longest daylight/shortest daylight
  6. 8. a visual effect created when light is blocked
  7. 11. Polaris
  8. 12. a natural satellite
  9. 14. 12 hours of daylight/12 hours of darkness
  10. 16. when the Earth passes exactly between the Sun and the Moon
  11. 17. getting larger
  12. 18. getting smaller
Down
  1. 1. gradual change of appearance of the moon
  2. 3. when the Moon passes exactly between Earth and the Sun
  3. 5. moon
  4. 9. a time of year
  5. 10. turn on its axis
  6. 13. travel or orbit around another object
  7. 15. an imaginary line through the center of a planet