Across
- 2. to get smaller, dimmer, or weaker; to near an end
- 3. Gibbous, Slightly dark on the right side, mostly lit on the left.
- 5. crescent, Crescent on the right side, dark on the left.
- 6. An apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different locations
- 7. orbit, The moon orbits the earth every 27 days
- 8. moon, moon phase when the entire side facing Earth is illuminated.
- 12. Moon, A moon that is completely dark because it's unlit side is facing Earth
- 14. eclipse, the blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and the moon
- 15. eclipse, an eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon.
- 16. A force that pulls objects toward each other
- 17. an event in which the shadow of one celestial body falls on another
Down
- 1. gibbous, Slightly dark on the left side, mostly lit on the right.
- 4. force, an attractive force that acts between any two objects
- 8. quarter, Lit on the right side, dark on the left.
- 9. Quarter, Moon phase in which the Moon is waning and 1/4 of the Moon can be seen
- 10. any part of a system that has uniform composition and properties
- 11. Crescent, Crescent on the left side, dark on the right.
- 13. increase or grow