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Ever changing Moon
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lunar cycle | the four week period during which the Moon orbits one time and goes through all of its phases |
| Illuminate | to light up |
| Quantitative | information that can be counted or measured or giving a numerical value |
| Qualitative | information that is not represented by numbers but by characteristics or descriptions |
| Gibbous moon | any phases of the moon that has more than half of its illuminated |
| Waxing | when the face of the moon looks larger each day |
| Waning | when the face of the moon looks smaller each day |
| Revolution | one full orbit around an object |
| Rotation | one spin of a planet on its axis |
| seasons | caused by the way the sunlight hits the Earth according to the Earth's axis |
| Maria (plural) | large dark gray areas that are smooth on the surface of the Moon |
| Lunar eclipse | an eclipse in which the moon appears darkened as it passes into earth's shadow |
| Shadow | a dark area produced by an object takes around another object coming between light and a surface |
| Orbit | a regular, repeating path that one objects takes around another or center of gravity |
| Axis | an invisible line going North/South through the Earth. |