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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| rotation | The spinning of a body, such as a planet, on its axis. |
| day | The time it takes a planet to completes on full rotation on its axis. |
| revolution | The motion of a body that travels around another. |
| year | Earth completes a full revoluvion around the sun in about 365 1/4 days. |
| season | is a characterized by a pattern of tempeture and other weather trends. |
| equinox | Sunlight shines equalily on the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. |
| solstice | The area of sunlight is at a maximum at one hemisphere and a minium at another. |
| The reason for the seasons... | ...Are longer days and direct rays. |
| satallite | |
| gravity | |
| lunar phases | |
| ecipse | |
| umbra | |
| penumbra | |