Shannon 4.E.1 Science Vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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Axis | a straight line about which a body or a geometric figure rotates
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Cycle | Events or actions that repeat themselves again and again
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Full Moon | The moon with its whole disk lighted
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Moon | the natural heavenly body that shines by reflecting from the sun and revolves about the earth in about 29 1/2 days
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New Moon | the moon's phase when its dark side is toward the earth
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Orbit | the path taken by one body circling around another body
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Revolve | to move in an orbit rotate
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Rotation | the act of turning about an axis
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Appearance | the way something looks
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Gravity | a force of attraction that draws particles or bodies together toward the center of the earth
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Phase | the way that the moon looks to the eye at any time in its series of changes with respect to how it shines
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Reflection | the of light from a surface
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Waxing | when the moon's illumination is increasing
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Waning | when the moon's illumination is decreasing
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First Quarter | when the moon is one-half illuminated by the sun and occurs when the moon's illumination is increasing
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Last Quarter | when the moon is one-half illuminated by the sun and occurs when the moon's illumination is decreasing
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