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Sci. Ch 19-21 vocab
Chapters 19 through 21 vocabulary words.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the study of the moon,stars, and other pbjects in space | Astronomy |
| imagenary line that passes through Earth's center and it's north and south poles, about which earth rotates | Axis |
| the upinning motion of a planet about it's axis | Rotation |
| the movement of an object around another object | Revolution |
| the path of an object as it revolves around another object in space | Orbit |
| the distance north or south from the equator | Latitude |
| the 2days of the year on which the noon sun is directly overhead at either 23.5 degrees south or north | Solstice |
| the 2days of the year on which neither hempisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun | Equinox |
| the day of the year that marksthe beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere | Vernal Equinox |
| the day of the year tha marksthe beginning of fall in the northern hemisphere... | Autumnal Equinox |
| one of the different shapes of the moon as seen from earth | Phases |
| the partial or toal blocking of the an object by another | Eclipse |
| the blocking of sunlight to Earhtthat occurs when the moon is between the sun and earth | Solar Eclipse |
| the darkest part of a shadow | Umbra |
| the part of a shadow surrounding the darkest part | Penumbra |
| the blocking of sunlightto the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and mooon | Lunar Eclipse |
| the daily rise and fall of earht;s watera or shore | Tides |
| the attractive force between 2 objects | Gravirty |
| any object that revolves arounf another object in space | Satellite |
| the orbitof a satellite that revolvesaround earth at the same rae that earht rotates | Geosynchronis Orbit |
| a device built to study distant objects by making them appear closer | Telescope |
| A round pit on the moon's surface | Crateria |
| dark, flat regions on the moon's surface | (seas) |