Natural Events

What is a cycle?

• a sequence that KEEPS REPEATING

• a set of events that happens the SAME WAY every time

• ONE PART of a cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is a PHASE?

• A sequence that KEEPS REPEATING

• ONE PART of a cycle

• a series of events that happens IN ORDER

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is a sequence?

• ONE PART of a cycle

• A series of events that happen IN ORDER

• A set of events that happens the SAME WAY every time

What is a pattern?

• A sequence that KEEPS REPEATING

• ONE PART of a cycle of events

• A set of events that happens the SAME WAY every time

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

When the moon is getting bigger, it is ____________

• waning

• waxing

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

When the moon is getting smaller, it is _______________

• waning

• waxing

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Name this moon phase

• Waxing crescent

• waning gibbous

• first quarter

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Name that moon phase

• last quarter

• waning crescent

• new moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Name this moon phase

• waxing crescent

• full moon

• waxing gibbous

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Why do we have high tide and low tide?

• because the earth is rotating

• because the moon's gravity is pulling on the water

• because the sun is heating up the water

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-4