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