The bowl-shaped holes or dents on the Moon.
What are craters?
The star that is closest to us.
What is the Sun?
The shape of the Earth's orbit.
What is elliptical?
When the Moon gradually becomes larger.
What is waxing?
The study of objects in our solar system.
What is astronomy?
Dark areas of the moon.
What is Maria?
The length of time it takes for the Earth to orbit the Sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
The length of time it takes for the Earth to rotate one time.
What is 24 hours?
During this phase of the Moon, we do not see any reflected light.
What is a New Moon?
Dark spots on the sun.
What are sunspots?
Astronauts found this when they traveled to the Moon.
What is rocks and dust, but no water or life?
The flames shooting out from the outer edge of the Sun.
What are solar flares and prominences.
Causes night and day.
What is the rotation of the Earth.
What side of the Moon do we see when the Moon is waning or becoming smaller?
What is the left side of the Moon?
An imaginary line running through the center of the globe from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is an axis?
The length of time it takes for the Moon to rotate on its axis.
What is 29 1/2 days
What the Sun and all the stars are made of.
What is plasma?
The first astronauts to walk on the Moon.
Who are Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong?
The moon following a new Moon.
What is a Waning Crescent?
People who travel in spacecraft.
Who are astronauts?
The side of the Moon that faces the Earth.
What is the near side of the Moon?
Copernicus found this out about the Sun.
What is the Sun is the center of our solar system?
The two things cause the seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth and the Earth's orbit?
When there are two full Moons in one month, the second full Moon is called this.
What is a blue Moon?
The imaginary line that circles the globe.
What is the equator.