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| Seasons | A subdivision of the year, marked by changes in weather, ecology, and hours of daylight.
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| Direct light | Light that shins directly on something.
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| Indirect light | Light that goes through somthing else before shining on an object.
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| Earths titlt | A certian degree in wich the earths axis is sitting on.
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| Orbit | Path of an object around a point in space.
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| Revolution | The rotation of spinning around an object.
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| Axis | An imaginary line in which earth sits on a tilt.
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| Rotation | A circular movement around an object.
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| Solstice | An astronomical event that occurs twice each year as the Sun reaches its highest or lowest excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere.
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| Equinox | When the tilt of the Earth's axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the center of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth's equator.
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| Moon phases (Space view) | The appearance of the illuminated (sunlit) portion of the Moon as seen by an observer, usually on Earth.
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| Moon phases (Earth view) | the result of looking at the illuminated half of the Moon from different viewing geometries.
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| Gibbous | When more than half but less than fully illuminated.
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| Cresent | Crescent is generally the shape produced when a circular disk has a segment of another circle removed from its edge.
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| Waxing | Moving toward a full moon.
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| Waning | Have a progressively smaller part of its isible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size.
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