Earth's movement & the Moon

Earth is rotating and revolving at the same time

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A natural or artificial object in space that circles another object

• planet

• meteoroid

• crater

• satellite

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

the tendency of an object to keep moving in a straight line

• orbit

• gravity

• inertia

• pull

The natural satellite of the Earth, visible by reflected light from the sun.

• Saturn

• Mercury

• the Moon

• the Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

large, round bodies that revolve around a star

• craters

• meteoroids

• planet

• moons

The blocking of the Sun's light that happens when the Earth passes through the new moons shadow

• lunar eclipse

• solar eclipse

• total eclipse

• shooting star

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The regular rise and fall of water along the shoreline

• tide

• riptide

• waves

• ocean

Each point in Earth’s orbit at which daylight hours are at their greatest or fewest

• equinox

• solstice

• summer

• winter

When half of the lit portion of the Moon is visible after the waning gibbous phase

• Full moon

• First quarter

• Last quarter

• New moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

When the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun and we can see the entire lit portion of the Moon

• New moon

• First quarter

• Full moon

• Last quarter

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1