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Question | Answer |
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Axis | the imaginary line through earth that extends from North Pole from South Pole and is the center of Earth's Position |
Direct | in the shortest unbroken line; tempatures are higher where the Sun's rays are direct. |
Hemisphere | Half of a sphere; earth and the celestial sphere can be divided into northern and southern or eastern and western hemisphere |
Indirect | Angled or spread out; tempatures are lower where the sun's rays are indirect |
Orbit | a curved path followed by a satellite as it revolves around an object |
Revolution | the movement of one object around a center of a object |
Rotation | the spinning of earth its axis that causes day and night to occur |
Seasons | the four natural divisions of the year based on changes in temperature due to varying ammounts of sunlight recived both intensity and number of daylight hours vary |
Tilt | the slant of earths axis which is 23.5 degrees from dvertical compared to earths orbital plane around th sun; results in north pole always poiting toward suth star |