Earth's Seasons & Lunar Cycle

A series of phases the Moon goes through as it revolves around Earth

• seasons

• day and night cycle

• water cycle

• lunar cycle

A season marked by low temperatures and short periods of direct sunlight.

• autumn

• summer

• spring

• winter

The order of objects or events that form a pattern

• orbit

• sequence

• waxing

• waning

To shrink or decrease in size

• orbit

• waning

• waxing

• sequence

To move around another object

• revolve

• rotate

• cycle

• axis

The right half of the moon appears illuminated in our night sky; the third phase of the lunar cycle.

• last/third quarter moon

• new moon

• full moon

• first quarter moon

A body in space that orbits a planet

• moon

• sun

• star

• planet

The path an object takes as it revolves around a star, planet, or moon.

• revolution

• axis

• orbit

• rotation

The left half of the moon appears illuminated in our night sky; the seventh phase of the lunar cycle

• crescent moon

• new moon

• last quarter moon

• first quarter moon

A phase that occurs before and after New Moon.

• crescent moon

• first quarter moon

• gibbous moon

• last/third quarter moon