THE LUNAR CYCLE

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Across
  1. 3. To turn on an axis.
  2. 4. The phases are said to be doing this during the first half of the lunar cycle between the new moon and the full moon.
  3. 6. When the moon first appears above the horizon after sunset
  4. 10. Light that comes from the sun.
  5. 11. When one object moves around another
  6. 13. A phase of the Moon in the lunar cycle halfway between a new Moon and a full Moon.
  7. 15. A word used to describe the thin curved shape of the visible part of the Moon
  8. 19. The light that has bounced off an object or surface such as the moon.
  9. 22. Relating to the Moon.
Down
  1. 1. Earth’s natural satellite
  2. 2. The phase of the Moon in the lunar cycle when the sunlit side of the Moon is not visible from Earth.
  3. 5. The shapes of the visible parts of the Moon throughout its lunar cycle
  4. 7. An object, such as a moon, that orbits another object, such as a planet.
  5. 8. A phase of the Moon in the lunar cycle when all of the sunlit side of the Moon is visible from Earth
  6. 9. The third quarter moon, halfway between the full Moon and the new Moon; the moon appears from Earth to be a “half Moon.”
  7. 12. The amount of days in a lunar cycle
  8. 14. The star around which Earth and other planets orbit.
  9. 15. A word used to describe the thin curved shape of the visible part of the Moon
  10. 16. The phases are said to be doing this during the second half of the lunar cycle between the full moon and the new moon
  11. 17. The backside of a heavenly body such as the moon that cannot be seen.
  12. 18. A word used to describe the Moon when it appears to be more than half but less than full.
  13. 20. A closed symmetric curved shape like an oval
  14. 21. To move or travel around an object in a curved path.