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Earth's seasons, months, and years Moon phrases and eclipses
Term | Definition |
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Rotation | The spinning of a spinning body, such as a planet, on its axis. |
Day | The time is takes a planet to complete a one full circle on its axis. |
Revolution | The motion of a body that travels around another body in space. |
Year | Earth completes a full revolution around the sun in 365 1/4 days or about a ________. |
Season | Each ___________ is characterized by a pattern of temperature and other weather trends. |
Equinox | At an ___________ sunlight shines equally on the northern and southern hemispheres. |
Solstice | At a ____________ the area of sunlight is at a maximum is one of the hemisphere than the other. |
Satellite | A body that orbits a larger body. |
Gravity | When bodies that have mass exert a force that pulls other objects towards themselves. |
Luna phases | As the moon revolves around earth, the proportion of the moon that reflects sunlight back to earth changes, causing the moon's appearance to change. |
Eclipse | Is an event during which in object in space casts a shadow onto another. |