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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| any object that orbits a larger body | Satellite |
| the streak of light from a small space rock burning up as it enters Earth's atmosphere at high speed, caused by friction heating the rock and surrounding air | Meteor |
| a small, rocky, airless body orbiting the Sun, essentially leftover debris from the solar system's formation, too small to be planets but larger than meteoroids | Asteroid |
| a icy celestial body of frozen gases, dust, and rock that orbits the Sun, developing a glowing head and often a long tail as it nears the Sun, releasing gases and dust due to solar heating and wind | Comet |
| a natural space rock that survives its fiery passage through Earth's atmosphere and impacts the ground | Meteorite |
| a small, rocky or metallic body orbiting the Sun in interplanetary space | Meteoroid |
| the fundamental force of attraction between any two objects with mass or energy | Gravity |
| an instrument that collects and focuses electromagnetic radiation from distant objects | Telescope |
| the curved, repeating path one celestial body or object takes around another | Orbit |
| an astronomical event and a fundamental paradigm shift | Revolution |
| the circular movement of an object around an internal or external axis of rotation | Rotation |
| a central, real or imaginary line around which an object rotates, spins, or is symmetrically arranged | Axis |
| a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be nearly round but hasn't cleared its orbital path of other significant objects | Dwarf planet |
| the periodic rise and fall of sea levels, driven primarily by the Moon's gravitational pull, and to a lesser extent, the Sun's, combined with Earth's rotation | Tide |
| the moment when Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the Sun, causing the Sun to shine directly over the equator, resulting in nearly equal day and night lengths globally as both hemispheres receive equal sunlight | Equinox |
| the moment the Earth's axial tilt causes one hemisphere to lean farthest toward or away from the Sun | Solstice |
| the moon's visible illumination increasing or the process of applying a protective wax coating, often made of lipids, to a surface to repel water and dirt | Waxing |
| a crescent refers to the lunar phase where less than half of the Moon's face is sunlit, appearing as a curved sliver with two pointed ends, occurring just after the new moon or just before it | Crescent |
| any celestial body, especially the Moon or a planet, that appears more than half-illuminated but not fully lit, exhibiting a bulging or convex shape as seen from Earth, occurring between the | Gibbous |
| first/third quarter and full phases, and originating from the Latin for "humpbacked" | |
| the peak of the regular rise of sea level, occurring when ocean water bulges outwards due to the combined gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun, and the Earth's rotation, causing the water to advance furthest onto the shore at specific points on Earth | High tide |
| the point when ocean water recedes to its minimum level along the shore, occurring as the Earth rotates through the troughs between the two tidal bulges created by the gravitational pulls of the Moon and Sun, alongside the Earth's inertia | Low tide |
| the incoming, landward flow of water during a tidal cycle, occurring as the water level rises from low tide to high tide, driven by the gravitational forces of the Moon and Sun | Flood tide |
| the period when seawater flows away from the shore, moving from high tide to low tide, driven by gravity | Ebb tide |
| the vertical difference in water level between a consecutive high tide and low tide at a specific location, caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun, Earth's rotation, and local geography | Tidal range |
| a period of extreme tides occurring when the Sun, Earth, and Moon align , typically during the new moon and full moon phases, combining their gravitational pulls to create larger tidal bulges | Spring tide |
| a period of moderate tides with the smallest difference between high and low water levels | Neap tide |
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