Sun, Moon and Earth Vocabulary

To move in a circular path around something.

• Spin
• Rotation
• Orbit
• Revolve

The sun's light that bounces off or reflects off of the moon.

• Reflection
• Glare
• Mirror
• Retract

Phase of the moon that is almost but not quite a new moon, the skinny moon.

• Gibbous
• New
• Crescent
• Full

The path the moon takes as it moves around the earth.

• Axis
• Equator
• Rotation
• Orbit

Phase of the moon that looks like a complete circle and is completely lit.

• Full
• Blue
• Half
• Quarter

Phase of the moon that is almost but not quite full.

• Waxing
• New
• Gibbous
• Waning

A complete turn from a central point, turning or spinning.

• Orbit
• Rotation
• Reflection
• Spin

Phase of the moon that looks like a dark circle and is hard to see. 

• Full
• Waning
• New
• Gibbous

An invisible line that runs through the earth, from the North Pole to the South Pole.

• Poles
• Revolve
• Hemisphere
• Axis

Phase of the moon that looks like a "half moon."

• Quarter
• Crescent
• Gibbous
• Half