The Night Sky

The phase of the Moon when all of the sunlit side is visible from Earth.

• Crescent Moon

• Full Moon

• gibbous Moon

• New Moon

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A huge sphere of hydrogen and helium gas that radiates heat and light.

• Cloud

• Planet

• Star

• Moon

To move around or travel around an object in a curved path

• Spin

• Rotate

• Cycle

• Orbit

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

We can see this many planets from Earth with unaided eyes

• 3

• 5

• 7

• all of them

All of these planets can be seen from Earth with our unaided eyes except

• Mercury

• Mars

• Neptune

• Jupiter

We aren't able to see other stars or planets during the daytime because the Sun is too ____________.

A smaller round object that orbits the Sun and does not orbit a planet

• Moon

• Cloud

• Dwarf planet

• Star

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

To estimate in advance based on a pattern or previous knowledge

• Predict

• Theory

• Conclude

• Guess

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

We can see about __________ stars in the sky on a clear night.

Earth's natural satellite

• Venus

• Dwarf planet

• the Moon

• Saturn

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1