Vocabulary Words

2. is a distinct body of interstellar clouds
4. coming closer together
6. the rate at which an object covers distance
9. was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.
10. the action of rotating around an axis or center.
12. a tide just after the first or third quarters of the moon when there is least difference between high and low water.
13. tending to be different or develop in different directions.
14. phases New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, and Last Quarter
15. force the force applied in one direction is greater than the force applied in the opposite direction
16. intermediate phase of the Moon that starts right after the First Quarter when the illumination is 50%.

1. Force equal in size and opposite in direction
3. rate at which velocity changes with time
5. seen with more than half but not all of the apparent disk illuminated
6. a tide just after a new or full moon, when there is the greatest difference between high and low water.
7. The waning gibbous phase is between a half moon and full moon.
8. a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged.
10. the movement of an object in a circular or elliptical course around another or about an axis or center.
11. the rate of change of its position with respect to a frame of reference,