1. All eight of these orbit around the sun.

2. Planets

3. The third planet from the sun which has a rocky surface.

4. Earth

5. The central star in our solar system made of hot glowing gas.

6. The Sun

7. A natural satellite that orbits around the sun and gets its light from the sun. It has a rocky dusty surface.

8. The moon

9. The imaginary line that runs from the north pole to the south pole of Earth. The earth rotates on it.

10. The axis

11. The movement of Earth around the sun. It takes 365 days.

12. Revolution

13. The movement of earth as it spins on its axis

14. Rotation

15. The phase of the moon where the moon appears totally dark.

16. New moon

17. The phase of the moon where half of the moon is visible.

18. Quarter moon.

19. The phase of the moon where we see the entire half of the moon that is lit.

20. Full moon.

21. A small section of the moon facing Earth is lighted.

22. Crescent

23. The rise and fall of the ocean level caused by the pull of moon’s gravity on Earth.

24. Tides

25. Using one of the five senses to make an observation

26. Qualitative observation

27. Making an observation using a number, counting or measuring

28. Quantitative observation

29. Forecasting or telling what you think will happen in the future.

30. Predicting

31. Using observations and past experiences to explain an event

32. Inferring or inferences

33. The intensity of light that is related to the amount of light we see

34. Brightness

35. This type of light is made up of all colors

36. White light

37. Light is a form of …

38. Energy

39. The bouncing back of light from a surface.

40. Reflection

41. The bending of light when light passes from one transparent material to another.

42. Refraction

43. Soaking up light when it strikes an object.

44. Absorption

45. A material that allows light to pass through

46. Transparent

47. A material that allows some light to pass through

48. Translucent

49. A material that does not allow any light to pass through

50. opaque

51. Magnets and electromagnets pull toward certain metals or the opposite poles of other magnets

52. Attraction

53. Two things you can do to make an electromagnet stronger are…

54. More wire coils around the core or add more power sources.

55. Electricity can be transformed into __________, _________ and ________

56. Heat, light, and sound

57. Wire is made of metal because metal is a good ________ of electricity.

58. Conductor

59. These types of material do not allow electricity to pass through them.

60. Insulators

61. These types of materials allow electricity to pass through them.

62. Conductors.

63. This device allows you to open and close a circuit

64. A switch

65. This provides a source of power in an electric circuit

66. A battery

67. This object in a circuit changes electricity into light

68. A bulb

69. In this type of circuit there is only one path for electricity to flow (one bulb out means they all go out)

70. Series circuit

71. In this type of circuit there are multiple paths of electricity (if one bulb goes out, the others remain lit).

72. Parallel circuit

73. Liquid water on earth becomes a gas called water vapor

74. Evaporation

75. Water vapors turn back into liquid water droplets to form clouds

76. Condensation

77. Any form of water that falls from the clouds (rain, sleet, hail, snow)

78. Precipitation

79. Fluffy puffy white clouds

80. Cumulus

81. Highest thin wispy clouds made of ice crystals.

82. Cirrus

83. Low clouds that spread out in layers covering the sky

84. Stratus

85. How fast the air is moving

86. Wind speed

87. Where the wind is coming from

88. Wind direction

89. How warm or cold the air is

90. Temperature

91. Measures the wind speed

92. Anemometer

93. Tells which direction the wind is coming from

94. Wind vane (some call it a weather vane)

95. Measures precipitation

96. Rain gauge

97. Measures air temperature

98. Thermometer

99. A tool that gives the cardinal directions North, South, East, and West

100. Compass

101. A severe storm with lightning, thunder, heavy rain, and strong winds

102. Thunderstorm

103. A small, funnel shaped cloud that comes down from a storm cloud with winds spinning in excess of 100mph

104. Tornado

105. A large storm that forms over warm ocean water with very strong rotating winds that circulate around a central eye.

106. Hurricane