Earth-Moon System Vocab

light-colored, mountainous, heavily cratered area of the Moon, composed mostly of lunar breccias

• solar eclipse

• impact crater

• lunar eclipse

• moon highland

the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is nearest to the earth.

• solstice

• apogee

• equinox

• perigee

long trail of ejecta

• maria

• ecliptic plane

• rillie

• ray

when the moon's orbital and rotation periods are the same

• synchronous rotation

• ecliptic plane

• impact crater

• regolith

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

the large, dark, flat areas on the Moon

• rillie

• albedo

• maria

• highlands

The two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator

• winter

• equinox

• summer

• solstice

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun

• impact crater

• ecliptic plane

• disc

• revolution

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

material that falls back to the lunar surface after being blasted out by the impact of a space object

• equinox

• ejecta

• ray

• perigee

Each of the two times of the year(about September 22 and March 20) when days and nights are of equal length (12 hours) → Equinox

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Occurs when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth and casts a shadow over part of Earth → lunar eclipse

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1