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Astrology, Space
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| One year | Revolution around the Sun. 365 days |
| One day | 1 rotation on the Earth's axis. Is rounded to 24 hours |
| Equinox | Equal amount of day and night |
| Soltices | Longest and shortest days |
| Solar Eclipse | The moon is blocking the suns rays to Earth. |
| Lunar Eclipse | The Earth is between the moon between the Sun. The Earth's shadow blocks the moon |
| Reasons for eclipses | Earth's and the moon's shadow |
| Inner Planets | Mercury, Venus, Earth, & Mars |
| Outer Planets | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune |
| Pluto | Dwarf Planet |
| Big Bang Theory | The theory of how the Universe was created. It was a point or energy that exploded. |
| Tilt of the axis | Causes the 4 seasons. Winter, Spring, Summer, & Fall. It also causes day & night |
| Gravity | Holds everything from floating or plummeting. |
| Moon | A huge rock that revolves around the Earth. It seems to change shape because of the revolution. The moons shadow causes phases. |
| Waxing | Gaining light |
| Waning | Losing light |
| Cresent | A shape that is curved inward |
| Gibbous | A shape that is curved outward |
| Effects of Position | Position of light source and moon |
| Asteriod Belt | Located between Mars & Jupiter. Separates ther inner and outer planets |
| Galaxy types | Elliptical, Irregular, & Spiral |
| Where is our solar system | Near the outside the of the Milky Way |
| Comet | Chunk of ice and rock. Orbits the sun like a planet. Shooting Stars |
| Comets tail | Made from ice and melts when pointed to the sun. |
| What happens | The particles from the tail come near(in) earth and create meteor showers. |
| Where are they from | Kuiper Belt or Oort clouds |
| Meteor | A light from a burning meteor (rock in space) as it enters Earth. They are then Meteorites. |
| Where can they be seen | Mostly in Anaratica |
| High tides | When earth moon amd sun are aligned. Spring Tides |
| Neap tides | When the three form a 90° angle |
| Apollo Space Program | Reached the moon |
| How does this gravity between earth amd the moon work | 4he closer the object moves towards a plant, star, the greater affect tue gravity will have on it |
| Magnitude | The stars brightness |
| Apperent Magnitude | The brightness from Earth |
| Absolute Magnitude | The actual brightness |
| Colors on Stars | Stars with warmer lookimg stars are cooler than ones that look blue, white |
| Light year | A distance for light to travel for one year |
| Nova & Supernova | Exploding stars in space |
| Quarsars | Star looking objects. They are brighter than stars and are the most luminous |
| Pulsars | A star that pulsates, dims are becomes brighter. |
| Electromagnetic Spectrum | Arrangement of electromagnetic waves |
| Telescopes that uses visible light | Reflecting amd Refracting |
| Insivinble light waves telescopes | Radio, infrared, Gamma Ray |
| Satellite | Natural or man made object that reloves around another object a |
| Astriod | Large meteor in space. |
| Moon | No atmosphere, is vacuum(no atoms or molecules), weathering And erosion cant take place |
| Saturn | Has most rings |
| Jupiter | Most moons |
| Earth | The only planet that canprovide life. Has sufficient water and oxygen |
| Constellation | A pattern or stars |
| AU | Used to refer tp distanxes in spac3 |
| How long are most orbits | Plant is closer to the sun the faster. Farthee is shorter |
| Gravational pull | E larger an object the more pull it has. 6 |
| Other life | No life sources in the universe other than Earth |
| Black hooe | A collapsed star whos3 gravoty has grown . Light can nor even escape |
| Space prob | Launched inro spac2 into distant areas. Amd uses electromagnetic wavee to send intel |
| Space shuttle | Takes off like a rocket but flies amd lands like an airplane. |
| Space Stations | Allows astronauts to stay in space for months at a time. |
| Geocentric theory | The thoigt that the earth was in the middle of the solar system. |
| Heliocentric theroy | Thought that the sun is in the middle of the solar system |
| Solar system | Locted in milky way |
| What makes the universe | Stars, solar systems, nebula, asteroid comets,etc |
| Global Clusters open clusters | They are grouping of stars in formations |
| Photosphere | Part of our sun we can see from Earth |
| Light distance | It takes 8 minutes for light to travel to earth. |
| Neuclear fusion | Joining of hydrogen atoms to make helium atoms. This is how stars creat light |
| Neuclear fission | The splitting of atoms from like Uranium. |
| Luminous | Givies off its own light |
| Illuminated | It reflects the light from other objects |
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