Space Vocab Crossword 1

3. The moon is starting to shrink. "Waning" means shrinking. The light is on the left side now.
6. Half of the moon is lit up on the right side. It looks like a half-moon.
10. Half of the moon is lit up again, but now it’s the left side.
12. A tool that shows the time by the shadow of a pointer cast by the Sun on to a plate marked with hours in a day.
13. An imaginary line that goes through the north pole and the south pole.
14. To spin or turn around a central point like the Earth and it’s axis.
16. Just a tiny sliver of light is left on the left side before the moon becomes new again.
19. The entire face of the moon is lit up and visible from Earth.

1. The part of the Moon that we can see on a particular night.
2. The tilt of the Earth is when the Earth tilts toward the Sun (Summer) and away from the Sun (Winter).
3. More than half of the moon is lit, but it’s not full yet. The light is biggest on the right side.
4. A time of the year with specific weather that repeats every year.
5. A long exposure picture that shows the movement of stars in the night sky
7. The distance around a circle.
8. An informative representation of an object, person or system.
9. A regular repeating path that one planet takes around another.
11. A small sliver of the moon begins to appear on the right side. "Waxing" means growing.
15. The moon is between the Earth and the Sun. We can’t see it from Earth because the sunlit side is facing away from us.
17. A group of stars that looks like a particular shape in the sky and has been given a name.
18. Set of events that repeats in the same order over and over.