Unit F- List A

Question 1

Data

Answer 1

Information gathered

Question 2

Phenomenon

Answer 2

An event relataed to how the world and universe work

Question 3

Model

Answer 3

Any representation of a system, or its components, to help one study and understand how it works

Question 4

Axis

Answer 4

The imaginary line around which an object spins,or rotates. Earth rotates around an axis that runs straight through earth from the North Pole to the South Pole

Question 5

Plausible

Answer 5

consistent with evidence

Question 6

Rotate

Answer 6

To turn or spin around an axis

Question 7

Rotation

Answer 7

To turn or spin around an axis

Question 8

Time zone

Answer 8

A region throughout which the same standard time is used.(There are 24 time zones in the world at approximately by meridians at 15 intervals, an hour apart.)

Question 9

Equator

Answer 9

An imaginary circle that divides earth into two halves called the northern and southern hemisphere

Question 10

Hemishpere

Answer 10

One half of a sphere (The half of Earth that is north of the equator is the Northern Hemisphere; the half of the Earth that is south of the equator is the Southern Hemisphere.

Question 11

Orbit, Revolution

Answer 11

A complete circle made by a planet around the sun or by a moon around a planet.

Question 12

Revolve

Answer 12

To travel around another object in a circular or elliptical path

Question 13

Crescent Moon

Answer 13

The phase of the moon in which the lit portion of the moon is visible from the earths surface is less than a half circle (crescent shape). Crescent Moons occur right after and right before the new moon

Question 14

Full Moon

Answer 14

The phase of the Moon before that occurs about 14 days after the new moon in which the complete lighted pottion of the moon is visible from earths surface and appers as a full circle

Question 15

First quarter Moon

Answer 15

The phase of the moon occuring about seven days after the new Moon in witch the lighted portion of the moon that is visibel from earths suface is a half circle

Question 16

gibbous Moon

Answer 16

A phase of the moon before or after it is full when more than half of its disk is alluminated

Question 17

Last quarter Moon

Answer 17

The phase of the moon that occurs about 7 days after the full Moon in which the lighted portion of the moon thta is visible from earths surface is a half circle

Question 18

Lunar cycle

Answer 18

The reviloution of the Moon around earth that produces the changing phases of the Moon. one completed lunar cycle takes 29.5 days.

Question 19

New Moon

Answer 19

The phase of the moon occuring about 14 days after the full moon in which none of the lighted portion of the moon that is visible from earths surface

Question 20

Waning

Answer 20

The phases of the moon when the illumanated portion visible from earth is decresing

Question 21

waxing

Answer 21

The phases of the moon when the illumanated portion visible from earth is incresing