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science 4th vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Seasons | A subdivision of the year, marked by changes in weather, ecology, and hours of daylight. |
| Direct light | Light that shins directly on something. |
| Indirect light | Light that goes through somthing else before shining on an object. |
| Earths titlt | A certian degree in wich the earths axis is sitting on. |
| Orbit | Path of an object around a point in space. |
| Revolution | The rotation of spinning around an object. |
| Axis | An imaginary line in which earth sits on a tilt. |
| Rotation | A circular movement around an object. |
| Solstice | An astronomical event that occurs twice each year as the Sun reaches its highest or lowest excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. |
| Equinox | When the tilt of the Earth's axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the center of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth's equator. |
| Moon phases (Space view) | The appearance of the illuminated (sunlit) portion of the Moon as seen by an observer, usually on Earth. |
| Moon phases (Earth view) | the result of looking at the illuminated half of the Moon from different viewing geometries. |
| Gibbous | When more than half but less than fully illuminated. |
| Cresent | Crescent is generally the shape produced when a circular disk has a segment of another circle removed from its edge. |
| Waxing | Moving toward a full moon. |
| Waning | Have a progressively smaller part of its isible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size. |
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