click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Moon Vocab for 6th
Term | Definition |
---|---|
What are craters? | round structures with various sizes and detaits |
What are Rays? | White lines that extend in all directions from the craters |
What are Maria? | Large dark gray areas that are smooth |
What are Comets? | Large icy objects with a tail that orbit the sun |
What are Asteroids? | Chunks of rocky material that orbit the sun |
What is the lunar cycle? | the four week period during which the Moon orbits Earth one time and goes through all of its phases. |
What does illuminate mean? | To light up |
What is a lunar eclipse? | an eclipse in which the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth's shadow. |
What is a solar eclipse? | an eclipse in which the sun is blocked out by the moon. |
When do you get a meteorite? | when a meteoroid hits an object like the Moon. |
What is weight? | a measure of the gravitational pull on an object. |