Earth and Moon Vocab

To turn or whirl

• spin

• revolve

• dance

• horizon

To move in circle on an axis

• revolve

• rotate

• equator

• tilt

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

to lean or incline

• horizon

• astronomy

• revolve

• tilt

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The curved path of a celestial object around a star, planet, or moon

• sunrise

• sphere

• orbit

• axis

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

the line where the Earth's surface and the sky appear to meet

• horizon

• tilt

• axis

• rotate

the time in the morning when the sun "appears" (apparent rising of the sun above the horizon)

• sunset

• poles

• sunrise

• equator

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

the time in the evening when the sun "disappears" (apparent rising of the sun above the horizon)

• equator

• sphere

• sunrise

• sunset

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

a round solid figure

• sphere

• orbit

• spin

• horizon

an imaginary line that an object rotates on

• sphere

• axis

• equator

• spin

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

either of 2 opposite ends/points where its axis of rotation intersects its surface

• poles

• sunset

• clockwise

• seasons

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6