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PhysicalScienceVocab
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Astronomy | The study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space. |
Axis | An imaginary line that passes through Earth’s center and the North and South poles, about which Earth rotates. |
Rotation | The spinning motion of a planet on its axis. |
Revolution | The movement of an object around another object. |
Orbit | The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space. |
Solstice | The two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator. |
Equinox | The two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun. |