Sun-Earth-Moon Review

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Across
  1. 3. The Earth's spinning on its axis is called ______.
  2. 5. It takes about one _____ for Earth to make one revolution around the sun
  3. 8. Light colored areas on the moon too high for the lava to have reached
  4. 9. The northern hemisphere of Earth experiences _______ when it is tilted away from the sun
  5. 13. Gravity from the ________ is the main cause of tides.
  6. 14. We see the moon because light from the sun ______ off the moon
  7. 15. Round pits on the moon's surface caused by objects hitting it
  8. 18. The moon phase as seen in image D below.
  9. 21. The northern hemisphere of earth experiences _______ when it is tilted towards the sun
  10. 23. One of the forces that keeps the planets moving around the sun
  11. 25. The moon phase in which none of the lit side is visible from earth
  12. 27. One of the forces that keeps the planets moving around the sun
  13. 28. The NASA program with a series of space missions that landed people on the moon
Down
  1. 1. During _______ phases of the moon, we see more of the lit part every night
  2. 2. The moon phase as seen in image A below
  3. 4. It takes about one ______ for earth to make one complete rotation
  4. 6. The Earth takes an ______ path around the sun
  5. 7. The moon phase as seen in image B below
  6. 10. Large, dark areas on the moon formed from lava flows
  7. 11. When Earth's axis is tilted the most towards or away from the sun in June or December
  8. 12. The moon phase as seen in image C below
  9. 16. When the earth's axis is not tilted towards or away from the sun in March and September
  10. 17. The earth has ______ because its axis is tilted as it revolves around the sun
  11. 18. The moon phase where all of the lit side of the moon is visible from Earth
  12. 19. The path an object follows as it moves around another object
  13. 20. During _____ phases of the moon, we see less of the lit part every night
  14. 22. It takes about a ______ for the moon to revolve around the earth one time
  15. 24. A device used to distant objects by making them appear closer
  16. 26. The movement of one object around another