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Seasons
Day/ Night, Seasons, Moon Phases
Term | Definition |
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hemisphere | one half of the earth, especially the half above or below the equator |
orbit | the curved path an object, like a planet, takes as it revolves around another object |
axis | The imaginary line extending from the North Pole to the South Pole going through the center of Earth |
rotation/ rotate | The spinning of Earth on its axis that causes day and night to occur |
revolution/ revolve | when one object moves around a center point on a circular path |
tilt | Tilt The slant of Earth's axis, which is 23.5 degrees from vertical |
ellipse | a regular oval shape, like a circle that has been pressed on two sides |
seasons | Weather changes due to varied amounts of sunlight (both intensity and number of daylight hours received.) Caused by the tilt of Earth during revolution |