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UNIT 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| rotation | the spinning of a body, such as planet on its axis |
| day | the time it takes a planet to complete one full rotation on its axis |
| revolution | the motion of a body that travels around another body in space |
| year | earth completes a full revolution around the sun in 365 days |
| season | is characterized by a pattern of temperature and other weather trends |
| equinox | sunlight shines equally on the northern and southern hemispheres |
| solstice | the area of sunlight is at a maximum in one hemisphere and at minimum in the other hemisphere |
| satellite | a body that orbits a large body |
| gravity | is a force of attraction |
| lunar phases | the moon appearance to change |
| eclipse | is an event during which one object in space casts a shadow onto another |
| umbra | is the darkest part of a shadow |
| penumbra | around it is a spreading cone of lighter shadow |
| tide | they are daily change in the level of the ocean water |
| tidal range | is the different between the levels of ocean water at high tide and low |
| spring tide | spring tides happen when the sun, the moon, and earth form a straight line |
| neap tide | when the sun, earth and the moon form a 90 angle as shown in the illustrations below |