Earth, Moon & Sun Vocabulary

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

• lunar eclipse

• gibbous moon

• crescent moon

• full moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

a moon outside our solar system

• exomoon

• full moon

• exoplanet

• lunar eclipse

a planet outside our solar system

• exomoon

• moon

• new moon

• exoplanet

a moon phase that looks like a full circle from Earth

• full moon

• new moon

• gibbous moon

• crescent moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

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

• new moon

• gibbous moon

• crescent moon

• moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

to shine light on an object and make it visible

• scale

• orbit

• illuminate

• moon

Tags

NGSS.4-PS4-2

when the Moon is completely dark

• full moon

• lunar eclipse

• new moon

• quarter moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

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

• year

• pattern

• scale

• mdoel

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

a rocky sphere that travels around a planet

• moon

• moon phase

• exomoon

• solar system

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

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

• orbit

• pattern

• moon phase

• sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1