Chapter 12 Science vocab quiz

Every object in the universe attracts every other object, depending on their masses and distances from one another.

• law of universal gravitation

• equinox

• solstice

• tide

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The two days of the year in which the sun's most direct rays reach farthest north or farthest south.

• tide

• wax

• solstice

• equinox

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The two days of the year when day and night are almost the same length everywhere on earth.

• solstice

• spring tide

• neap tide

• equinox

The moon phase in which less than half of the moon's sunlit side is visible.

• crescent

• gibbous

• mare

• wane

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The moon phase in which more than half, but not all, of the moon's sunlit side is visible.

• solar eclipse

• solstice

• gibbous

• crescent

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

To grow.

• wax

• wane

• mare

• tide

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

To shrink.

• spring tide

• wane

• wax

• neap tide

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

An event that occurs when Earth passes directly between the sun and the moon, causing Earth's shadow to block the sun's light from the moon.

• equinox

• solstice

• solar eclipse

• lunar eclipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

An event that occurs when the moon passes directly between the sun and Earth, causing the moon's shadow to block the sun's light from a portion of Earth.

• lunar eclipse

• solar eclipse

• solstice

• equinox

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The periodic rising and falling of the surface level of ocean water.

• mare

• neap tide

• tide

• spring tide