Earth Moon Sun Unit Review 24-25

A rocky sphere that travels around a planet.

• star

• sun

• moon

• meteor

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The border between light and dark on the moon.

• terminator

• boundary

• line of demarcation

• edge

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

To shine light on an object and make it visible.

• obscure

• illuminate

• darken

• ignite

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The star that is the main source of light at the center of our solar system.

• moon

• planet

• earth

• sun

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The relative size of things. When you make things smaller or bigger, but they are still proportional to each other.

• scale

• diagram

• model

• terminator

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see.

• scale

• model

• diagram

• terminator

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The shape of the illuminated part of the Moon as it appears from Earth.

• orbit

• moon phase

• rotation

• earth phase

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The moon is illuminated by the __________.

• light from within the moon

• stars surrounding it

• sun

• Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

When a model is to scale, object sizes and distances are _________________

• smaller or bigger than in the real world, but the same relative to each other.

• the same size as in the real world.

• smaller or bigger than in the real world, but different relative to each other.

• however you want them to be.

The sun illuminates

• the whole moon.

• half of the moon that is facing it. The other half is dark.

• none of the moon, because the moon makes its own light.

• half of the moon that is not facing it. The other half is light.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1