Earth, Moon, and Sun vocab

What is the term used to describe the orbiting of an object around another object?

• Rotation

• Axis

• Orbit

• Revolution

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What is the spinning of a celestial body, such as a planet, around an axis called?

• Revolution

• Orbit

• Axis

• Rotation

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What is the circular path of an object that revolves around another object known as?

• Axis

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Orbit

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What is an imaginary line that an object spins or revolves around called?

• Orbit

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Axis

What are the dark areas on the moon's surface called?

• Craters

• Maria

• Gravity

• Inertia

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What are craters on the moon's surface?

• Dark areas on the moon

• A force that exists between objects with mass

• An object's resistance to a change in motion

• Roughly circular, bowl-shaped holes formed by the impact of rocky bodies

What is gravity?

• The dark areas on the moon's surface

• Roughly circular, bowl-shaped holes on the moon

• A force that exists between any two objects that have mass

• An object's resistance to a change in motion

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What is inertia?

• The dark areas on the moon's surface

• Roughly circular, bowl-shaped holes on the moon

• A force that exists between any two objects that have mass

• An object's resistance to a change in motion based on its mass

What is the Penumbra in the context of an eclipse?

• The darkest part of the shadow causing a total eclipse.

• The lighter outer region of a shadow causing only a partial eclipse.

• The full shadow cast by the Earth during a lunar eclipse.

• The full shadow cast by the Moon during a solar eclipse.

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What is the Umbra?

• The part of the shadow where a partial lunar eclipse is visible.

• The lighter part of the shadow during an eclipse.

• The darkest part of the shadow during an eclipse where a total eclipse is visible.

• The area outside the shadow during an eclipse.

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