Science 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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astronomy | the study of the moon, stars and other objects in space
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axis | an imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and the North and South poles, about which Earth rotates
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equinox | the two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun
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gravity | a force that moves rocks and other materials downhill: the force that pulls objects toward each other
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moon | a natural satellite that revolves around a planet
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orbit | the path of an object as it revolves around another object in space
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phase | one of the different apparent shapes of the moon as seen from Earth
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revolution | the movement of an object around another object
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rotation | the spinning motion of a planet on its axis
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solstice | the two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
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