Week 7 Vocabulary: The Fast & The Curious: Astronomy

What is the meaning of the word orbit as used in our Science studies?

• to move around another object along a circular path, as in an orbit

• the path of an object as it revolves around another object in space

• a device that uses an object's shadow to tell time

• a division of the year that is characterized by regular weather conditions and determined by both the Earth's tilt and its position in its orbit around the sun

What is the meaning of the word revolve as used in our Science studies?

• a device that uses an object's shadow to tell time

• a division of the year that is characterized by regular weather conditions and determined by both the Earth's tilt and its position in its orbit around the sun

• a group of stars that form a pattern in the sky

• to move around another object along a circular path, as in an orbit

What is the meaning of the phrase arc of the sun as used in our Science studies?

• a shaded region that results when light falls on an object

• the point earth spins on, and when this changes so do the seasons

• the shape at which the sun travels in its daily rotation

• the gradual changes of the shape of the directly sunlit portion of the Moon as viewed from Earth

What is the meaning of the phrase shadow clock as used in our Science studies?

• a division of the year that is characterized by regular weather conditions and determined by both the Earth's tilt and its position in its orbit around the sun

• a device that uses an object's shadow to tell time

• a group of stars that form a pattern in the sky

• an astronomical body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star

What is the meaning of the word shadow as used in our Science studies?

• a shaded region that results when light falls on an object

• the point earth spins on, and when this changes so do the seasons

• the gradual changes of the shape of the directly sunlit portion of the Moon as viewed from Earth

• the force with which the earth, moon, or other massive body attracts an object toward itself

What is the meaning of the word rotate as used in our Science studies?

• to spin on an axis

• the shape at which the sun travels in its daily rotation

• a shaded region that results when light falls on an object

• the point earth spins on, and when this changes so do the seasons

What is the meaning of the word season as used in our Science studies?

• a group of stars that form a pattern in the sky

• an astronomical body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star

• a natural object that orbits a planet

• a division of the year that is characterized by regular weather conditions and determined by both the Earth's tilt and its position in its orbit around the sun

What is the meaning of the phrase Earth's axis as used in our Science studies?

• the gradual changes of the shape of the directly sunlit portion of the Moon as viewed from Earth

• the force with which the earth, moon, or other massive body attracts an object toward itself

• the point earth spins on, and when this changes so do the seasons

• planets are the name that the ancient Greeks gave to the stars that moved, which came from the word for wandering

What is the meaning of the word constellation as used in our Science studies?

• an astronomical body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star

• a group of stars that form a pattern in the sky

• a natural object that orbits a planet

• a sun (star), planets, and all the other objects that revolve around that sun

What is the meaning of the phrase moon phases as used in our Science studies?

• the gradual changes of the shape of the directly sunlit portion of the Moon as viewed from Earth

• the force with which the earth, moon, or other massive body attracts an object toward itself

• planets are the name that the ancient Greeks gave to the stars that moved, which came from the word for wandering

• the path of an object as it revolves around another object in space