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6th Grade The Universe
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1. When the moon is between the earth and the sun, and we see no part of it lit, we call the moon a...

2. The eight planets that revolve around the sun

3. When one object in space casts a shadow on another object in space

4. 29.5 days, or the amount of time it takes the moon to make one full revolution around the Earth

5. When the moon is one-fourth of the way through its revolution around the earth, we call that moon phase the...

6. The first moon phase we see, after the new moon phase is the...

7. To spin on an axis

8. The pull that exists between all objects

9. A large, ball-aped object that moves around a star in a fixed path

10. When the moon is 3/4 of the way around its orbit, and we see half of the half of the moon, we say the moon's phase is...

11. To go around an object in an orbit

12. Small clumps of rock, dust and ice that that glow and form tails as they near the sun

13. Because Earth takes 365.25 years to revolve around the sun, every 4 years there is an extra day in the calendar to make up for the 1/4 day each year. What do we call the year when this extra day is added?

14. After the first quarter, when the moon is mostly lit, and on its way to becoming a full moon, we say the phase is...

15. An object in space that gives off its own light and heat

16. When we see the lit part of the moon getting smaller, we say that the moon is....

17. A natural satellite of a planet

18. The time it takes earth to make one full rotation on its axis

19. When we see the shape of the lit area of the moon getting larger we say that the moon is...

20. The time it takes Earth to revolve once around the sun

21. These areas get less direct sunlight than any other part of the earth

22. The season of the year when the northern part of the Earth is tilted toward the sun and the sun's rays hit the Northern Hemisphere in a more direct angle

23. When the earth comes between the sun and the moon. Earth blocks the sun from the moon and it looks like the moon disappears and then reappears.

24. When the moon comes between the Earth and the sun and blocks some or all of the sun's light. The moon casts a shadow upon the earth.

25. The different shapes that we see of the moon

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