Vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Force | a push or pull
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| Gravity | attracts all objects toward each other
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| law of universal gravitation | states that every object in motion will stay at motion andany object at rest will stay at rest
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| mass | the amount of matter in an object
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| weight | the force of gravity on an object
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| inertia | the tendency of an object to resist a change in motion
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| newtons first law of motion | every object in the universal will attract each other
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| astronomy | the study of space
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| axis | the imaginary line that passes through the earths north and south poles
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| rotation | earth spinning on its axis
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| revolution | the movement of one object around another
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| orbit | the path of earth around the sun
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| calendar | a system of organizing time and dates
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| solstice | the day when the sun is right over the equator longest day of the year
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| equinox | night and day are equal
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| phases | different shapes of the moon
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| eclipse | moons shadow hits earths shadow
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| solar eclipse | when the moon passes directly between the moon and earths shadow during a full moon
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| umbra | the darkest part of the moons shadow
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| penumbra | the lighter part of the moons shadow
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| lunar eclipse | earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon
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| tide | the moons gravity acting on different parts of the earth
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| spring tide | greatest difference between high and low tides
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| neap tides | least difference between the high and the low tide
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