Unit F- List A

Question 1

Information gathered from an experiment; firsthand evidence from the 5 senses or from machines that extend our senses.

Answer 1

Data

Question 2

An event related to how the world and universe works

Answer 2

Phenomenon

Question 3

Any representation of a system, or its components, to help one study and understand how it works

Answer 3

Model

Question 4

The imaginary line around which an object spins, or rotates. Earth rotates around an axis that runs straight
through Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole.

Answer 4

Axis

Question 5

Consistent with evidence

Answer 5

Plausible

Question 6

To turn or spin around an axis

Answer 6

Rotate/ rotation

Question 7

A region throughout which the same standard time is used. ( There are 24 in the world at approximately by meridians at 15 degrees intervals, an hour apart.)

Answer 7

Time zone

Question 8

An imaginary circle that divides Earth into two halves called the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere.

Answer 8

Equator

Question 9

One half of a sphere. ( The half of Earth that is north of the equator is the Northern one; the half of Earth that is south of the equator is the Southern one.)

Answer 9

Hemisphere

Question 10

A complete circle made by a planet around a sun or by a moon around a planet.

Answer 10

Orbit/ revolution

Question 11

To travel around another object in a circular or elliptical path.

Answer 11

Revolve

Question 12

The phase of the Moon in which he lit portion of the Moon visible from Earth’s surface is less than a half-circle. They occur right after and right before the new Moon.

Answer 12

crescent Moon

Question 13

The phases of the Moon that occurs about 14 days after the new Moon in which the complete lighted portion of the Moon is visible from Earth’s surface & appears as a full circle.

Answer 13

full Moon

Question 14

The phases of the Moon, occurring about seven days after the new Moon, in which the lighted portion of the moon that is visible from Earth’s surface is a half-circle.

Answer 14

first quarter Moon

Question 15

A phase of the Moon before or after it is full, when more than half of its disk is illuminated.

Answer 15

gibbous Moon

Question 16

The phases of the Moon that occurs about 7 days after the full Moon in which the lighted portion of the Moon that is visible from Earth’ s surface is a half-circle.

Answer 16

last quarter Moon

Question 17

The revolution of the Moon around Earth that produces the changing phases of the Moon. One complete one takes about 29.5 days.

Answer 17

lunar cycle

Question 18

The phase of the Moon, occurring about 14 days after the full Moon, in which none of the lighted portion of the Moon is visible from Earth’s surface.

Answer 18

new Moon

Question 19

The phases of the Moon when the illuminated portion visible from Earth is decreasing(between the full and new Moon)

Answer 19

Waning

Question 20

The phases of the Moon when the illuminated portion visible from Earth is increasing( between the new full Moon)

Answer 20

Waxing