Vocab for LS 2 Quiz
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| A device that measures time using shadows cast by an object that blocks the sunlight. | Sundial
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| The object on a sundial blocking direct light from the sun & casting a shadow. | gnomon
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| A line through the center of a body and which the body rotates or spins. | Axis
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| The amount of time it takes a body to spine on its axis. | Day
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| Bouncing back light from a surface. | Reflection
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| Bounced back off a surface. | Reflected
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| The illuminated part of the moon visible from earth at a given time. | Phase of the moon.
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| The path that a solar system object takes while going around another solar system object. | Orbit
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| The line at which the sky & earth appear to meet. (Like a sunset on a lake.) | Horizon
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| The line at which the sky & moon appear to meet. | Lunar horizon
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| A unit of measurement with 4 angles. ??? | Degree
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| The blacking of light from 1 object in space by another object in space. | Eclipse
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| When the moon passes between the sun & earth, so that light from the sun is partially or totally blocked. | Solar Eclipse.
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| When the moon passes through the earth's shadow so that some or all of the moon can only be seen by reflected light from Earth. | Lunar Eclipse.
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| The complete blocking of light from 1 object in space by another object in space seen from a particular location. | Total Eclipse.
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| The blocking of a percent of light from one object in space by another object in space. | Partial Eclipse.
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| The dark inner shadow cast by an object. | Umbra (THINK OF AN UMBRELLA!)
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| The lighter outer shadow cast by an object. | Pneumbra
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| A change in which 1 or more lower mass elements produces a higher mass element w/a release of __________?? amounts of energy. | Fusion Reaction
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| Outer portion at the suns' atmosphere consisting of super heated gases. ???? | Corona
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| The raise & fall of the surface level of a body of water due 2 the tide moving & ________gravatational pull. ???? | Tide
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| The time for a certain location when the tide is at its highest point. | High Tide.
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| The time for a certain location when the tide is at its lower point. | Low Tide.
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| A model or set of ideas used toe explain why things occur or have occurred. | Theory.
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