Middle school is hard.
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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| Atmosphere | The mixture of gases surrounding a planet.
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| Biosphere | All the living things on a planet.
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| Cause | An event or process that leads to a result or change.
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| Channel | A long, narrow groove that forms where water, lava, or other liquid flows.
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| Claim | A proposed answer to a question about the natural world.
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| Climate | General weather patterns over a long period of time.
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| Compare | To notice how two or more things are alike or different.
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| Crescent moon | A moon phase that looks like less than a half circle from Earth.
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| Effect | A result or change that happens because of an event or process.
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| El Nino | A climate pattern where water near the equator gets hotter than usual and affects the weather around the world; El Niño happens in the Pacific Ocean.
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| Energy | The ability to make things move or change.
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| Evidence | Information about the natural world that is used to support or go against (refute) a claim.
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| Exomoon | A moon outside of our solar system.
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| Exoplanet | A planet outside of our solar system.
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| Full Moon | A moon phase that looks like a full circle from Earth.
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| Geosphere | The solid part of a rocky planet.
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| Gibbous Moon | A moon phase that looks like more than a half circle from Earth.
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| Gyre | A giant pattern of moving water that spans whole oceans and moves water from place to place in a circle.
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| Habitable | Having the conditions necessary to support life.
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| Hydrosphere | All the liquid water and solid water (ice) on a planet.
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| Illuminate | To shine light on an object and make it visible.
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| Latitude | The distance of a place north or south of the Earth's equator.
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| Model | An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand how a system, or part of a system, works.
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| Moon | A rocky sphere that travels around a planet.
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| New Moon | A moon phase where the Moon is not visible from Earth.
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| Ocean current | Ocean water flowing in a continuous path.
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| Orbit | The nearly circular path a smaller object (like the Moon) travels around a larger object (like Earth).
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| Pattern | Something we observe to be similar over and over again.
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| Prevailing winds | Winds that move in one direction and are strong enough to push ocean currents.
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| Quarter Moon | A moon phase that looks like a half circle from Earth.
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| Reasoning | The process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim.
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| Scale | The relative size of things.
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| Scientific argument | A claim supported by evidence.
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| Solar System | The sun, the planets that orbit the sun, and other objects that orbit the sun.
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| System | A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.
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| Sun | The star that is the main source of light at the center of our solar system.
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| Temperature | A measure of how hot or cold something is; the higher the temperature is, the more energy it has.
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| Terminator | The border between light and dark on the Moon.
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| Transfer | To move energy from one object to another or one place to another.
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| Year | The amount of time it takes for a planet to complete one orbit around a star or stars.
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