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science vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Meteors | a is a the streak of light entering earth's atomosphere |
| Comet | is a colod mixture of dust and ice that gives up a along trail of light as it approachs the sun |
| constellation | ia pattern or group of starts that people imagined to repersent a figure anmal or object |
| orbit | is a slightly elogatged circle or ellipse |
| Solstice | the day when the sun appears farthtest north is the summer solstice. |
| Equinox | witch means equal night |
| Eclispe | there are two types of eclipeses solor eclipse and lunar ecliapse |
| solar eclispe | occurs when the moon passes direstcly between the earth and sun |
| Umbra | the very darkest part of the moon's shadow |
| Penumbra | a where part of the sun is vible to part of the earth |
| Lunar Eclispe | occurs when the full when the earth is dereitly between the moon and the sun |
| Tide | the rise and fall of ocean water |
| Spring Tide | the greteast difffencying between low and high tide |
| Neap Tide | the leat deffence between the low and high tide |
| Matria | are hardedned rock that formed from huge lava flows that occuced 3-4 billon years ago |
| Craters | Large rock pits |
| Meteoroids | chunks of rock or dust from space |