vocab
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| polaris | the polestar or North pole, a star of the second magnitude situated close to the north pole of the heavens, in the constellation Ursa Minor: the outermost star in handle of the little dipper
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| latitude | distance north or south from the equator measured in degrees
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| longitude | distance measured by degrees or time east or west from the prime meridian
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| ellipse | an oval-shaped closed curve: the shape of a planet's orbit
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| summer solstice | the solstice on or about June 21st that marks the beginning of the summer in the Northern Hemisphere
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| winter solstice | the solstice on or about December 21st that marks the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere
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| equinox | the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21
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