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science exam pt.1
science exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| crescent moon | a moon that looks like less than half a circle from Earth |
| exomoon | a moon outside our solar system |
| exoplanet | a planet outside of our solar system |
| full mon | a moon phase that looks like a full circle from Earth |
| Gibbous moon | a moon phase that looks like more than a half circle |
| illuminate | to shine light on an object and make it visible |
| model | an object, diagram, or a computer program that helps us by making something simpler or easier to see |
| moon | a rocky sphere that travels around a planet |
| new moon | a moon phase that makes the moon is not visible from Earth |
| orbit | the nearly circular path a smaller object makes around a larger object |
| pattern | something we observe to be similar over and over again |
| quarter moon | a moon phase that looks like half of the moon from Earth |
| scale | the relative size of things |
| solar system | the sun, the planets that orbit the sun, and other objects that orbit the sun |