EMS vocabulary

shape of the moon that is less than a quarter moon, but not 'new'

• full moon

• new moon

• crescent moon

• waxing gibbous moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

central, darker part of a shadow where light is totally blocked

• umbra

• penumbra

• tide

• equinox

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

orbit

• path an object follows as it moves around another object

• motion of an object around another object

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

penumbra

• lighter part of the shadow where light is partially blocked

• revolution

• occurs when more and more of the moon's lit side is visible from earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

the spinning motion of a planet on its axis

• equator

• revolution

• orbit

• rotation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

an imaginary line that passes through Earth's core from the north and the south pole

• circling

• spinning

• rotation

• rotation axis

solar eclipse

• occurs when the moon's shadow appears on the Earth's surface.

• occurs when the moon moves into the Earth's shadow.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

occurs when less and less of the moons lit side is visible from earth.

• tide

• waning phase

• waxing phase

• spring tide

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

tide

• a tide at new or full moon; when there is the greatest difference between high and low water.

• daily rise and fall of sea levels.

• a tide at first or third quarters of the moon; when there is the least difference between high and low water.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

imaginary line that divides earth into northern and southern hemispheres.

• equator

• equinox

• solstice

• imaginary line