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www.lasm.org Our Moon: Myths & Folktales Vocabulary ELA Terms Character: A person or creature that interacts with others. Fact: Something that actually exists or occurs. Fiction: Something told or written that is not fact but is invented or fabricated. Folktale: A story made up and handed down by word of mouth or in popular culture. Legend: A story from the past in which the truth is popularly accepted but cannot be confirmed. Metaphor: A phrase that describes something by comparing it to some other thing to suggest a similarity between them. Myth: A story often describing the adventures of superhuman beings that attempts to describe the origin of a people's customs or beliefs. Sometimes used to explain mysterious events (as the changing of the seasons). Narrator: The person or character telling a story. Non-Fiction: Writing that is fact. Setting: The surrounding or environment in which a story takes place. Story: An account told for entertainment. A story can be about real or imaginary people or events. Storyteller: Someone who tells or writes stories. Symbol: A thing that stands for something else. The symbol can be an object or a graphic that represents an idea. www.lasm.org Astronomy Terms Crater: A hole made by an impact (as of a meteorite) or by the explosion of a bomb or shell. Earth: The planet on which we live; the third planetary object orbiting around our sun. Eclipse: a: An eclipse is the total or partial hiding of a planet, star, or moon by another b: The passing into the shadow of a planet, star, or moon. Lunar: Having to do with the moon. Moon: The earth's natural satellite that shines by reflecting light from the sun and revolves about the earth in about 29½ days. Moon Phases: Caused by the angle from which an observer on earth can see the moon illuminated by the sun as it orbits our planet. As the moon makes its way around the earth a person can look up in the sky and see various fractions of its surface reflecting sunlight. Orbit: The curved path in which a planet, satellite, or spacecraft moves in a circle around another body. Planet: A heavenly body other than a comet, asteroid, or satellite that travels in orbit around the sun. Rotate: To turn or cause to turn about an axis or a center. Satellite: a: A heavenly body orbiting another of larger size or, b : a man-made object or vehicle intended to orbit the earth, the moon, or another heavenly body. Solar System: Consists of a star with the group of heavenly bodies that revolve around it; especially : the sun with the planets, moons, asteroids, and comets that orbit it. Sun: The star around which the planets in our solar system revolve, from which they receive heat and light, and which has an average distance from the earth of about 93,000,000 miles (150,000,000 kilometers), a diameter of 864,000 miles (1,390,000 kilometers), and a mass 332,000 times greater than earth.