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Hart's Earth n Space

Pre-Post Test Vocabulary

TermDefinition
New Moon cannot be seen
Waxing Crescent shaped like a crescent, light is on the right side
First Quarter shaped like a semi-circle, light is on the right side
Waxing Gibbous shaped like an up-ended football, light is on the right side
Full Moon moon is fully visible
Waning Gibbous shaped like an up-ended football, light is on the left side
Last or Third Quarter shaped like a semi-circle, light is on the left side
Waning Crescent shaped like a crescent, light is on the left side
Summer solstice longest day of the year
Equinox equal amount of day and night hours, happens in the Spring and Fall
Summer when the sun appears the highest in the sky
Solar Noon time of day when the shadows are shortest because the sun is highest in the sky overhead
Lunar eclipse Earth is between the Sun and the Moon
Solar eclipse Moon is between the Earth and Sun
Rocks the Anasazi tribe used these as tools to develop calendars
March 20 or 22 Spring Equinox
Moon another name for the moon is "satellite"
Sun's radiation the main source of energy for Earth
December in Southern Hemisphere summer time
East where the sun rises
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere Winter in the Southern Hemisphere
Shadows longest in the morning and evenings over the horizons
Sun is a star
December 21 or 22 Winter solstice
24 hours is one Earth rotation
1 year is one Earth's revolution around the Sun
30 days one Moon's revolution around Earth
1,392,000 km the Sun's diameter
12,752 km the Earth's diameter
3,500 km the Moon's diameter
Created by: nhart
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