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Science vocab march
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| gravity | The force that pulls objects toward each other |
| law of universal gravitation | THe scientific law that states that every object in the universe attracts every other objects |
| mass | A measure of how much matter is in an object |
| weight | A measure of the force of gravity on an object |
| inertia | The tendency of an object any change in motion |
| Newton’s First Law of Motion | The scientific law that states that an object at rest will stay at rest and at a constant speed |