Earth and Space Grade 5 Review

Generates energy which is released as heat & light

• Sun

• Star

• Planet

• Moon

Shadows are the shortest

• sunrise

• sunset

• night

• high noon

Is the Sun a star?

• Yes

• No

To repeat something;to make something happen again.

• revolution

• apparent path

• replicate

• axis

How bright the stars appear to us when viewed from Earth.

• apparent brightness

• apparent path

• orbit

• revolution

The movement of the Earth around the Sun in its orbit; takes one year

• rotate

• revolution

• apparent path

• axis

'Waxing' means

• getting larger/growing

• getting smaller/decreasing

When we cannot 'see' the moon because it is between the Sun and the Earth, it is a ________ moon.

• Full

• waning gibbous

• new

• waxing gibbous

The different ways that the Moon looks from the Earth over a period of about a month.

• waning gibbous

• apparent brightness

• moon phases

• Fall equinox

The movement of the Earth as it spins on its axis; takes 24 hours.

• revolution

• scale

• apparent path

• rotate