Earth Moon & Sun 1
Light Waves
Earth Moon & Sun
Glossary
Basic Science
Earth Moon & Sun 2
100

illuminate

What is to shine light on an object and make it visible?

100

Light

What is a type of wave that carries energy from one place to another even through empty space?

100

Full Moon

What is a moon phase that looks like a full circle from Earth?

100

Claim

What is a proposed answer to a question about the natural world?

100

Moon

What is a rocky sphere that travels around a planet?

200

Sun

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

200

Absorb

What is to take in?

200

Crescent Moon

What is a moon phase that looks like less than a half circle from Earth?

200

Evidence

What is information about the natural world that is used to support or go against a claim?

200

Moon Phase

What is the shape of the illuminated part of the moon?

300

Orbit

What is the nearly circular path a smaller object travels around a larger object?

300

Light source

what is an object that emits light?

300

New Moon

What is a moon phase where the Moon is not visible from the Earth?

300

Reasoning

What is the process of making clear how evidence supports your claim?

300

Lunar Eclipse

What is when the moon is completely dark?

400

Diagram

What is a simplified, visual representation of information?

400

Visualize

What is to form a mental picture of something that cannot be seen?

400

Terminator

What is the border between light and dark on the Moon?

400

Scientific Argument

What is a claim supported by evidence?

400

Pattern

What is something we observe to be similar, over and over again?

500

Scale

What is the relative size of things?

500

Wave

What is a pattern that describeshow energy is carried from one place to another?

500

Gibbous Moon

What is a moon phase that looks like more than a half circle from Earth?

500

System

What is a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole?

500

Exomoon

What is a moon outside of our solar system?

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