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Unit 5 Vocabulary
Vocab
| Term | spinning of a body such as |
|---|---|
| a | spinning of a body such as a planet on its axis |
| Day | Time it takes a planet to complete a full rotation on its axis |
| Revolution | motion of a body that travels around another body in space |
| Year | Earth completes a full revolution around the sun in 365 days |
| Season | is characterized by a pattern of temperature and other weather trends |
| Equinox | Sunlight shines equally on the Northern and Southern Hemisphere |
| Solstice | the area of sunlight is at a maximum in one hemisphere and at a minimum in the other hemisphere |
| Axis | an imaginary line in which a body rotates |