Unit F List A

Question 1

Data

Answer 1

IInformation gathered

Question 2

Phenomenon

Answer 2

An event related 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 strait through Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole.

Question 5

Plausible

Answer 5

Consistent with evidence.

Question 6

Rotate, Rotation

Answer 6

To turn or spin around an axis.

Question 7

Time zone

Answer 7

A region throughout which the same standard time is used.

Question 8

Equator

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Hemisphere

Answer 9

One half of a sphere.

Question 10

Orbit

Answer 10

Another term for revolution

Question 11

Revolution

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Revolve

Answer 12

To travel around an 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 visible from Earth’s surface is less than a half-circle. Crescent moons occur right after or right before the new moon.

Question 14

Full Moon

Answer 14

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

Question 15

First- Quarter Moon

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

Lunar cycle

Answer 16

The revolution of the moon around Earth that produces the changing phases of the moon. One complete lunar cycle takes 29.5 days.

Question 17

Gibbous moon

Answer 17

A phase of the moon before of after it is full, when more than half of it’s disk is illuminated.

Question 18

Last quarter moon

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

new Moon

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Waning

Answer 20

The phases of the Moon when the illuminated portion visible from Earth is decreasing.

Question 21

Waxing

Answer 21

The phases of the Moon when the illuminated portion visible from Earth is increasing.