MPMS Space
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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| Eclipse | The partial or total blocking of light of one celestial object by another.
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| Equator | An imaginary line forming a great circle around the Earth’s surface that divides Earth into northern and southern hemispheres
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| Hemisphere | Either the northern or southern half of the Earth as divided by the equator, or the eastern of western half as divided by a meridian, especially the prime meridian
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| Phases | Any of the forms, recurring in cycles, in which the moon or a planet appears in the sky.
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| Revolution | The motion of an object around a point, especially around another object or a center of mass.
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| Rotation | The motion of an object around an internal axis
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| Seasons | A period of an object around an internal axis
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| Solstice | When one hemisphere gets its maximum area of sunlight, while the other hemisphere gets its minimum amount
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| Solstice | the time of year when days are either longest or shortest, and the angle of sunlight reaches its maximum or minimum
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| Equinox | When sunlight shines equally on the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere; a time of year when daylight and darkness are nearly equal for most of Earth
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| Tides | The regular rising and falling of Earth’s surface waters twice a tidal day as a result of the Moon’s and Sun’s gravitational attraction.
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| Waxing | Increasing
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| Waning | Decreasing
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