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Earth's Days, Years, and Seasons

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Rotation   The spinning of a body, such as a planet, on it's axis.  
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Day   The time it takes a planet to complete one full rotation on it's axis.  
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Revolution   The motion of a body that travels around another body in space.  
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Year   Earth completes a full revolution around the sun in 365 1/4 days, also know as a year.  
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Season   Each season is characterized by a pattern of temperature and other weather trends.  
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Equinox   At an equinox, sunlight shines equally on the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.  
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Solstice   At a solstice, the area of sunlight is at a maximum in one hemisphere and at a minimum in the other hemisphere.  
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