Vocabulary about how the planets move and act
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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| Axis | The imaginary line on which an object rotates
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| Rotation | The spinning of an object on its axis
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| Day | The time required for an object to rotate once on its axis
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| Orbit | The path that an object follows around another object in space
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| Revolution | The movement or motion of an object that travels around another object in space. One complete trip of an object around another object.
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| Year | The time it takes for an object to make one complete revolution around another object
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| 24 hours | One Earth day, or one complete rotation of the Earth on its axis
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| 365.24 days | One Earth year, or one complete revolution of the Earth around the sun
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| Diameter | A straight line that passes through the center of a circle or sphere
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| Mass | How much matter is in an object
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| Surface Gravity | The amount of gravitational pull experienced on the surface of an object
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