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4.E.1 Science
Shannon 4.E.1 Science Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Axis | a straight line about which a body or a geometric figure rotates |
Cycle | Events or actions that repeat themselves again and again |
Full Moon | The moon with its whole disk lighted |
Moon | the natural heavenly body that shines by reflecting from the sun and revolves about the earth in about 29 1/2 days |
New Moon | the moon's phase when its dark side is toward the earth |
Orbit | the path taken by one body circling around another body |
Revolve | to move in an orbit rotate |
Rotation | the act of turning about an axis |
Appearance | the way something looks |
Gravity | a force of attraction that draws particles or bodies together toward the center of the earth |
Phase | the way that the moon looks to the eye at any time in its series of changes with respect to how it shines |
Reflection | the of light from a surface |
Waxing | when the moon's illumination is increasing |
Waning | when the moon's illumination is decreasing |
First Quarter | when the moon is one-half illuminated by the sun and occurs when the moon's illumination is increasing |
Last Quarter | when the moon is one-half illuminated by the sun and occurs when the moon's illumination is decreasing |