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Science
Term | Definition |
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Sun | A fire star |
Earth | A planet in which we live in |
Moon | What makes a solar eclipse |
Solar eclipse | When the earth, moon and sun fall into the same pattern |
Aurora | Also known as the northern lights Takes place when the solar wind collides with the earth's ionosphere Atmosphere particles become excited during the collision and need to release energy to return to an ormastate |
Revolution | The movement of one object in an orbit around another object |
Satellite | A body in space that orbits a larger body. It can be natural or artifactual |
Rotation | The turning of an object on an axis. On earth a measurement in time from "sun up" to "sun up" |
Axis | An imaginary line running through the center of the earth from the north pole to the south pole |
Solar wind | A sonstant flow of charged particles resulting from the suns super high temperatures. These give rise to earth's phenomena known as Aurara |