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Sun, Moon, and Stars
The Moon-vocabulary words
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Science
3rd Grade
02/12/2012

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Moon
Definition
Earth's natural satellite
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Waning
Definition
Getting Smaller
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Cycle
Definition
A set of events or actions that repeat in a predictable pattern
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Full Moon
Definition
A phase of the moon in a lunar cycle when all of the sunlit side of the moon is visable from Earth
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Phase
Definition
The shape of the visable part of the moon
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Gibbous
Definition
A word used to describe the Moon when it appears to be more than half but less than full
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Waxing
Definition
Getting larger
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Satellite
Definition
An object such as a moon, that orbits another object such as a planet
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Lunar cycle
Definition
the four week period during which the moon orbits Earth one time and goes through all of its phases
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New Moon
Definition
the phase of a moon in a lunar cycle when a sunlit side of the moon is not visable from Earth
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Crescent
Definition
a word used to describe the curved shape of the visable part of the Moon right before and right after a new moon
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Orbit
Definition
to move or travel around an object in a curved path
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Third Quarter Moon
Definition
the phase of the Moon in the lunar cycle halfway betwen the full Moon and the new Moon; the Moon appears from Earth to be a "half-Moon"
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First Quarter Moon
Definition
a phase of the Moon in the lunar cycle halfway between a new Moon and a full Moon; the Moon appears to be a "half-Moon" as seen from Earth
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