PSSA Vocab Quiz #26

The blockage of sunlight to the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and the moon.

• Lunar eclipse

• Solar eclipse

• Solstice

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

the blockage of sunlight to Earth that occurs when the moon is directly between the sun and Earth

• Lunar Eclipse

• Solar eclipse

• Solstice

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator.

• Lunar eclipse

• Solar eclipse

• Solstice

The name given to the four inner planets; Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

• Terrestrial planets

• Gas Giants

• Geocentric

The name often given to first four outer planets; Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

• Terrestrial planets

• Gas giants

• Geocentric

A model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars.

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Solstice

A model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun

• Inertia

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion

• Inertia

• Revolution

• Rotation

The movement of an object around another object

• Revolution

• Rotation

• Inertia

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The spinning motion of a planet on its axis

• Revolution

• Inertia

• Rotation