Space Science 2

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