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SCI 7 Unit 7
Earth, Moon, and Sun
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a rocky sphere that travels around a planet? | Moon |
| What is a moon phase that looks like less than a half circle from Earth? | Crescent Moon |
| What is a moon outside our solar system? | Exomoon |
| What is a planet outside our solar system? | Exoplanet |
| What is a moon phase that looks like a full circle from Earth? | Full Moon |
| What is a moon phase that looks like more than a half circle from Earth? | Gibbous Moon |
| What means to shine light on an object and make it visible? | Illuminate |
| What is it called when the Moon is completely dark? | Lunar Eclipse |
| What is an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see? | Model |
| What is the shape of the illuminated part of the Moon as it appears from Earth? | Moon Phase |
| What is a moon phase where the Moon is not visible from the Earth? | New Moon |
| What is the nearly circular path a smaller object (like the Moon) travels around a larger object? | Orbit |
| What is something we observe to be similar over and over again? | Pattern |
| What is a moon phase that looks like half a circle from Earth? | Quarter Moon (or Half Moon) |
| What is the relative size of things? | Scale |
| What are the sun, the planets that orbit the sun, and other objects that orbit the sun all a part of? | Solar System |
| What is the star that is the main source of light at the center of our solar system? | Sun |
| What is the border between light and dark on the Moon? | Terminator |