8th Grade Unit 5 Vocabulary

What is the term for the partial or total blocking of one object in space by another?

• Rotation

• Eclipse

• Revolution

• Tide

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What is the spinning of Earth on its axis called?

• Revolution

• Eclipse

• Rotation

• Tide

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What is the movement of an object around another object known as?

• Tide

• Revolution

• Eclipse

• Rotation

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What is the periodic rise and fall of the level of water in the ocean called?

• Neap Tide

• Spring Tide

• Tide

• Eclipse

What are weaker tides caused by the sun and moon being in different positions called?

• Spring Tide

• Neap Tide

• Lunar Eclipse

• Solar Eclipse

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What is the term for a greater difference in tides because the moon and sun are aligned?

• Neap Tide

• Spring Tide

• Lunar Eclipse

• Solar Eclipse

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What occurs when the Earth blocks light from hitting the moon?

• Solar Eclipse

• Lunar Eclipse

• Neap Tide

• Spring Tide

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What happens when the moon goes between the sun and earth and blocks the sun?

• Lunar Eclipse

• Solar Eclipse

• Neap Tide

• Spring Tide

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What is it called when the amount of surface of the moon is decreasing?

• Waxing

• Waning

• Eclipse

• Rotation

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What is it called when the amount of surface of the moon is increasing?

• Waning

• Waxing

• Eclipse

• Revolution

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