6th Grade Science Chapter 6

The temperature of the moon’s surface varies greatly from day to night because the moon has _____.

The constellations seem to move as the seasons on Earth change because as Earth _____ around the sun, we have a different view of the
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The different shapes of the moon seen from Earth are called _____.

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A pattern or grouping of stars imagined by people to represent a figure is a _____.

A _____ solar eclipse is visible from only within the moon’s umbra.

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The force that pulls the moon toward Earth is called _____.

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The tides are _____ when the sun, Earth, and the moon are nearly in a line.

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Galileo saw that much of the moon’s surface is covered with round pits called _____.

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_____ are caused mainly by differences in how much the moon and the sun pull on different parts of the Earth.

You are less likely to see a total solar eclipse than a total lunar eclipse because the moon’s _____ only covers a small area on Earth’s surface.

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