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1-11 Science Words
Word to know for science in my school im in 6th grade.
Term | Definition |
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Rotation | The act of spinning or turning on an axis |
Axis | An imaginary line that runs from a planet's north pole to its south pole on which a planet rotates. |
Day | Length of time it takes for a planet to rotate once on axis |
Year | Length of time it takes for a planet to make one revolution around the sun |
Revolution | The act of moving in a curved path or orbit around another object |
Oribit | Path an object takes when it revolves around another object |
Ellipse | An enlonged circal; ovel |
Time Zone | One of the 24 standard zones into which earth is divided, corresponding to the 24 hour day! |
Horizen | The point where the sky seems or appears to meet the land, ground, and earth |
Sunrise | When aney part of the sun's disk becomes viable over the horizen |
Sunset | When the suns disk completely disappears behind (does not have to be complety the horizen |