Vocab. Quiz-Unit 7 - Lesson 4 & 5

the periodic rise and fall of the water level in the oceans and other large bodies of water

• orbit

• tide

• tidal range

• gravity

a small body from which a planet originated in the early stages of development of the solar system

• Planetesimal

• Orbit

• Perihelion

• Solar Nebula

a rotating cloud of gas and dust from which the sun and planets formed

• gravity

• perihelion

• planetesimal

• solar nebula

A tide of increased range that occurs two times a month, at the new and full moons.

• high tide

• neap tide

• spring tide

• tidal range

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

in the orbit of a planet or other body in the solar system, the point that is the furthest from the sun

• Neap Tide

• Gravity

• Orbit

• Aphelion

A force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses.

• orbit

• centripetal force

• neap tide

• gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

in the orbit of a planet or other body in the solar system, the point that is closest to the sun.

• Perihelion

• Apogee

• Planetesimal

• Orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

a tide of minimum range that occurs during the first and third quarters of the moon

• spring tide

• low tide

• tidal range

• neap tide

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space

• aphelion

• gravity

• planetesimal

• orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

the inward force required to keep a particle or an object moving in a circular path

• solar nebula

• centripetal force

• orbit

• gravity