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solar system
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| astroids | a small rocky body orbiting the sun. |
| comets | a celestial body that appears as a fuzzy head usually surrounding a bright nucleus,that consists primarily of ice and dust, and that often develops one or more long tails when near the sun. |
| dwarf planet | A smaller version of a planet |
| gravity | the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass |
| moon phases | Waxing essentially means "growing" or expanding in illumination, and waning means "shrinking" or decreasing in illumination. |
| revolution | an instance of revolving. |
| seasons | each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, |
| solar systems | the collection of eight planets and their moons in orbit around the sun |
| tides | the alternate rising and falling of the sea |
| axis | an imaginary line about which a body rotates. |
| constellations | a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern |
| gravitational pull | It's like the Earth pulling on you and keeping you on the ground |
| lunar eclipse | the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth's shadow |
| planet | a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star |
| rotation | the action of rotating around an axis or center |
| solar eclipse | an eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon |
| stars | a fixed luminous point in the night sky that is a large |
| tilt | move or cause to move into a sloping position |
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