Earth and Space Patterns Vocabulary Quiz

When the top of the sun’s disc first appears above the horizon in the east in the morning.

• Sunset

• Hemisphere

• Sunrise

• Model

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The time when the last part of the sun disappears below the horizon in the west in the evening.

• Sunrise

• Waxing

• Rotation

• Sunset

 Lit up portion of the moon shrinking, light is on the left.

• Gibbous

• Waning

• Waxing

• Lunar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

An object that orbits a planet. Can be natural or man-made. 

• Lunar

• Satellite

• Moon Phase

• Gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Referring to the moon.

• Crater

• Lunar

• Tide

• Solar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The way something looks or how it appears to our senses.

• Appearance

• Shadow

• Sphere

• Day/Night Cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Referring to the sun

• Lunar

• Appears

• Revolution

• Solar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

 Imaginary line a planet spins on.

• Orbit

• Axis

• Sunspot

• Crescent

The repeating pattern of day and night that occurs because the Earth rotates on its axis every 24 hours.

• Day/Night Cycle

• Shadow

• Rotation

• Revolution

The circular movement of one object around another. It take the Earth 365 days to make one complete orbit.

• Rotation

• Model

• Revolution

• Tide

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4