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6th Grade Space

6th graders Space Unit

TermDefinition
Rotation A spin in place. Earth rotates once every 24 hours, causing day and night.
Axis An imaginary line through the North and South poles that Earth rotates around.
Orbit The path one object follows as it goes around another in space.
Revolution One full trip around another object; Earth's revolution around the sun takes one year.
Horizon The line where Earth and the sky appear to meet.
Daytime When your part of Earth faces the sun and gets direct light.
Nighttime When your part of Earth faces away from the sun and is in darkness.
Sunrise When the sun first appears above the eatern horizon.
Sunset When the sun disappears below the western horizon.
Constellation A group of stars that form a pattern in the sky, like Orion.
Apparent Motion How objects seem to move because Earth is rotating, even though they are far away.
Earth's Rotation Earth's rotation on its axis once every 24 hours, making the sun, moon, and appear to move east to west.
Earth's Orbit Earth's yearly path around the sun.
Moon's Orbit The moon's path around Earth, completed in about 27.3 days.
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