Patterns in the sky Vocabulary

I'm a circle showing the principal directions printed on a map or chart. I am called a ________

• Compass rose

• navigate

• rotation

• orbit

I am the action of the earth turning or spinning around its center. I am called _________

• orbit

• rotation

• shadow

• food

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Known for being a dark shape made when an object blocks light. When you stand outside, your body blocks sunlight and that makes me I am a _________

• rotation

• orbit

• shadow

• compass rose

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

This is the path an object follows as it moves around another one. This is called _______

• orbit

• rotation

• compass rose

• electricity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

This is plan and direct the route or course of a ship, aircraft, or other form of transportation, especially by using instruments or maps. This is called ________

• navigate

• shadow

• constellation

• fractions

This is a group of stars that form a recognizable shape such as the big dipper. This is a called ________

• navigate

• shadow

• constellation

• orbit

Name the one thing that orbits around the Earth.

• people

• moon

• sun

• donuts

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1