VOCABULARY
MOON PHASES
THE SUN
THE PLANETS
1 DAY AND 1 YEAR
100
This is formed when a meteorite hits the moon's surface.
What is a crater?
100
This phase begins our moon cycle.
What is a new moon?
100
All the planets revolve around this.
What is the sun?
100
This is the planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
100
This happens on an axis.
What is rotation?
200
This is an imaginary force that pulls something towards another.
What is gravity?
200
This phase comes after the last quarter.
What is waning crescent?
200
When the sun is facing a part of the earth, it is.
What is day?
200
This is the last of the inner planets.
What is Mars?
200
This happens in an orbit around the sun.
What is revolution?
300
This divides the inner planets from the outer planets.
What is the asteroid belt?
300
This phase comes right before the waxing gibbous.
What is first quarter?
300
Spots on the surface that are cooler than the sun.
What is a sunspot?
300
This planet is the farthest from the sun.
What is Neptune?
300
This causes 1 year on earth.
What is revolution?
400
This is a elliptical pattern the planets take around the sun.
What is orbit?
400
When the moon's shadow is getting smaller.
What is waning?
400
Without the sun this wouldn't exist.
What is life?
400
These are all of the inner planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
400
This motion causes day and night.
What is rotation?
500
These planets are made of gas while these are solid.
What is outer planets and inner planets?
500
When the moon's shadow is getting bigger.
What is waxing?
500
The sun provides this for plants so they can perform photosynthesis.
What is energy?
500
These are all of the outer planets.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
500
Rotation and revolution happen in this direction.
What is counterclockwise?
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