ESS 1-1 Earth-Sun-Moon Vocabulary

The imaginary line that passes through Earth’s center and the North and South poles, about which Earth rotates is the _________________.

• Longitude

• Orbit

• Axis

• Phase

A path that something makes as it revolves around another object is an __________________.

• Hemisphere

• Orbit

• Latitude

• Equator

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Horizontal lines on the globe are the ________________ lines.

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Axis

• Orbit

The globe is divided into equal parts. North/south by the equator and east/west by the Prime Meridian. These partitions are  ____________.

• Hemispheres

• Axis

• Umbras

• Phases

The imaginary line at 0 degrees latitude is the ________.

• Longitude

• Equator

• Hemisphere

• Equinox

Vertical lines on the globe are the _____________ lines

• Hemisphere

• Latitude

• Equator

• Longitude

________ is the spinning motion of a planet about its axis.

• Equator

• Revolution

• Orbit

• Rotation

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The different shapes of the moon as seen from Earth are the _____________ of the moon.

• Quarter

• Phases

• Gibbous

• Waxing

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The movement of an object around another object is _______________.

• Revolution

• Rotation

• Spin

• Hemisphere

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A _________________ moon is when the lighted side appears to be getting smaller.

• Revolution

• Waxing

• Waning

• Umbra

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