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Earth,Moon,Sun Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Moon | A rock sphere that travels around a planet |
| Sun | The star that is the main source of light at the center of a solar system |
| Scale | The relative size of things |
| Illuminate | Th shine a light on a object and make it visible |
| Moon phase | The shape of the illuminated part of the moon as it appears from earth |
| Pattern | Something we observe to be similar over and over again |
| Orbit | The nearly circular path a smaller object (like the moon) travels around a larger object (like the sun) |
| Model | An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see |
| Waning | |
| Waxing | |
| Gibbous | Swelling |
| Terminator | The boarder between light and dark on the moon |
| (of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size | |
| The moon when it appears larger each night as it progresses from a new moon to a full moon |