Unit F- List A Flashcards

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Information gathered from an experiment; firsthand evidence from the 5 senses or from machines that extend our senses.

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Data

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An event related to how the world and universe work.

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Phenomenon

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

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Model

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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

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Axis

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Consistent with evidence

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Plausible

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To turn or spin around an axis.

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Rotate, Rotation

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

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Time zone

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An imaginary circle that divides Earth into two halves called the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere.

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Equator

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

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Hemisphere

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Another term for revolution

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Orbit

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A complete circle made by a planet around a sun or by a moon around a planet (orbit)

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Revolution

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To travel around another object in a circular or elliptical path.

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Revolve

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The phase of the Moon in which the lit portion of the Moon visible from Earth’s surface is less than a half-circle (crescent shape). Crescent moons occur right after and right before the new Moon.

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Crescent Moon

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The phase of the Moon that occurs about 14 days after the new Moon in which the complete lighted portion of the Moon is visible from Earth’s surface & appears as a full circle.

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Full Moon

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The phase of the Moon, occurring about seven days after the new Moon, in which the lighted portion of the moon that is visible from Earth’s surface is a half-circle.

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First-Quarter Moon

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A phase of the Moon before or after it is full, when more than half of its disk is illuminated.

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Gibbous Moon

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The phase of the Moon that occurs about 7 days after the full Moon in which the lighted portion of the Moon that is visible from Earth’s surface is a half-circle.

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Last Quarter Moon

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The revolution of the Moon around Earth that produces the changing phases of the Moon. One complete lunar cycles takes about 29.5 days.

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Lunar Cycle

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The phase of the Moon, occurring about 14 days after the full Moon, in which none of the lighted portion of the Moon is visible from Earth’s surface.

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New Moon

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The phases of the Moon when the illuminated portion visible from Earth is decreasing (between the full and new Moon.)

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Waning

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The phases of the Moon when the illuminated portion visible from Earth is increasing (between the new full Moon.)

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Waxing