Earth, Moon, Sun
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Rotation | The spinning of the earth on its axis
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| Revolution | The movement of the earth around the sun
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| Axis | The invisible line that goes through the poles
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| Equator | The invisible line that divides the earth horizontally to create the northern and southern hemisphere
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| Tilt | The way the earth sits on its axis. It aproximtie this is about 23.5*
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| Hemisphere | The way the earth is divided up creating time zones and seasons
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| Seasons | Temperature changes due to the rotation of the earth
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| Lunar Eclipse | Sun, earth then the moon which is in earth's shadow. This lasts a couple of hours
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| Solar eclipse | Sun moon then earth the moon blocks the sun's light creating a corona around the moon and this last only 5 minutes
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| Neap tide | tides that happen at first/last quarter creating small waves
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| Spring tide | tide that happen at new/full phases creating giant waves
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| New moon | this happens when the moon is in front of the sun
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| Full moon | this happens when the moon is getting full light from sun
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| 1st quarter | between waxing crescent/gibbous
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| 3rd quarter | between waning crescent/gibbous
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| waxing | seeing more of the moon
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| waning | seeing less of the moon
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| waxing crescent | between new and 1st quarter moon
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| waxing gibbous | between 1st quarter and full moon
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| waning crescent | between 3rd quarter and new moon
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| waning gibbous | between full and 3rd quarter moon
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| wave | a disturbance in water
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| tide | the rise and fall of water
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| umbra | darkest part of a shadow, where the light source is completely blocked by the occluding body
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| penumbra | a portion of the light source is obscured by the occluding body
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| total eclipse | an eclipse where the eclipsed body is completely obscured
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| partial eclipse | an eclipse in which the eclipsed body is only partially obscured
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| polaris | a northern star
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