Metric System
Data and Maps
Sun-Earth-Moon System
The Moon
Vocabulary
100

The three base units of the metric system

Gram, meter, liter

100

The degree of the line opposite to the Prime Meridian.

180°

100

The northern hemisphere is facing away from the Sun in this season. 

Winter

100

The lunar phase in which the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun.

Full Moon

100

Found at the rim of craters on the Moon.

Rays

200

The full prefix on the left of "da."

hecto

200

The poles are 90° for these lines north and south of the equator.

Latitudes

200

This type of eclipse has total, partial, and annular. 

Solar eclipse

200

The three astronauts that landed on the Moon in 1969.

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.

200

The Sun's maximum height in the sky.

Zenith

300

The first number in a scientific notation is called this. 

Coefficient

300

This type of data includes colors, shapes, and the senses.

Qualitative 

300

The degree that the Earth is tilted on its axis.

23.5°

300

Name both the light and dark parts of the Moon.

Maria and highland

300

The Earth's axis is perpendicular to the sun's rays in spring and fall.

Equinox

400

Simplify this: 0.000582638 dL

5.8 x 10-4 dL

400

This type of data includes all numbers. 

Quantitative 

400

The name of latitude in which the winter solstice happens.

Tropic of Capricorn

400

The Moon gets more sunlight in this part of the lunar phases and seems to "grow."

Waxing

400

The farthest point in the Moon's orbit around the Earth.

Apogee

500

Convert 1.7 kg to mg and write in the scientific notation format.

1.7 x 106 mg

500

Coordinates are written this way. 

Latitude, Longitude
500

The light shadow of Earth covering a part of the Moon during a lunar eclipse.

Penumbra 

500

This theory states how the Moon was formed.

Giant-Impact Theory

500

This type of shadow happens during a partial lunar eclipse.

Umbra