Unit 5: Earth Science, Vocabulary

The different shapes of the moon we see at different times of the month. A Lunar Cycle is 29.5 Days

• Crescent Moon

• Spring Tides

• Outer Core

• Lunar Phases

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One of eight lunar phases, in which the entire round illuminated face of the Moon is visible from Earth

• Crescent Moon

• 1st Quarter Moon

• Full Moon

• Lunar Phases

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Occurs when no visible light from the sun is reflected towards us by the moon.

• New Moon

• Full Moon

• Waning Gibbous

• Waxing Crescent

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Synonyms for reducing or increasing

• Pushing and Pulling

• Waning and Waxing

• Spring and Neap

• Outer and Inner

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When less than half of the moon is visible. Either Waxing (Increasing) or Waning (Reducing)

• Crust

• Crescent Moon

• Gibbous Moon

• New Moon

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When over half of the moon is visible. Either Waxing (Increasing) or Waning (Reducing)

• Gibbous Moon

• Crescent Moon

• New Moon

• Full Moon

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When Half of the moon is visible.

First Quarter = Waxing

Third Quarter = Waning

• Inner and Outer

• Full and New

• Waxing and Wanning

• First and Third Quarter Moon

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Very long-period waves that move through the ocean in response to the forces exerted by the moon and sun

• Tide

• Spring

• Igneous

• Neap

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_______________ is when water advances to its furthest extent onto the shoreline. ________________ is when it recedes to its furthest extent. Some freshwater rivers and lakes can have tides, too.

• Full Moon and New Moon

• Inner and Outer Core

• Spring and Neap

• High Tide and Low Tide

When the Sun, Moon, and Earth align during Full Moon phase or New Moon Phase it creates a larger gravitational bulge that makes the tides more extreme

• Spring Tide

• Neap Tide

• High Tide

• Low Tide

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