Earth Moon and Sun Vocabulary

a moon phase that looks like a full circle from Earth

• gibbous moon

• quarter moon

• new moon

• full moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

the nearly circular path a smaller object (like the Moon) travels around a larger object (like Earth)

• orbit

• scale

• model

• year

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

a rocky sphere that travels around a planet

• moon

• quarter moon

• new moon

• full moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

the shape of the illuminated part of the Moon as it appears from Earth

• gibbous moon

• terminator

• moon phase

• illuminate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

a moon outside our solar system

• exomoon

• full moon

• exoplanet

• new moon

an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see

• year

• moon

• orbit

• model

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

the amount of time it takes a planet to complete one orbit around a star or stars

• moon phase

• year

• sun

• orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

the relative size of things

• exoplanet

• orbit

• year

• scale

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

a moon phase that looks like half a circle from Earth

• crescent moon

• gibbous moon

• full moon

• quarter moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

a moon phase that looks like less than a half circle from Earth

• crescent moon

• gibbous moon

• full moon

• quarter moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1