4th Grade Vocabulary Part 3

An area of land over which surface water flows to a single collection point.

• Catchment area
• Watershed
• River basin
• Floodplain

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A body of salt water that covers most of the Earth.

• ocean

• lake

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 An object’s spinning motion on its own axis.

• Revolution
• Translation
• Oscillation
• Rotation

An object’s orbital motion around another object.

• Revolution
• Trajectory
• Rotation

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The ___________ are caused by the reflection of sunlight off the moon's surface.

• phases of the moon

• daylight
• sunlight
• starlight

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Earth's axial tilt and its revolution around the sun causes ____________.

• day and night cycles
• ocean currents
• weather patterns
• the seasons

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 The phases of the moon are responsible for the changes in ___________ range.

• weather
• seasons
• daylight
• tide

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An average-sized, yellow star that is about 4.6 billion years old.

• The Sun
• The moon

A small, rocky satellite that revolves around Earth.

• Mars
• Moon
• Jupiter
• Venus

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What moon phase is shown?

• Waxing Crescent
• New Moon
• Full Moon

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