Vocabulary
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Tides | Daily movements of ocean water that change the level of the ocean's surface.
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| Gravity | The force of attraction between two objects.
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| Lunar Eclipse | An event in which the Earth comes between the sun and the moon and the shadow of the Earth falls on the moon.
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| Revolution | The motion of a body as it orbits another body in space; one complete trip along an orbit.
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| Rotation | The spin of an object on its axis.
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| Axis | Imaginary line through an object. The object rotates on the axis.
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| Hemisphere | The half of the Earth (top or bottom) that the equator separates.
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| Phases | The moon's different appearances to us on Earth; they are due to the moon's changing position in its orbit.
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| Solar Eclipse | An event in which the moon comes between the Earth and the sun and the shadow of the moon falls on part of the Earth.
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| Solstice | The point at which the sun is as far North or South of the equator as possible.
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| Equinox | The point at which the sun is directly above the equator.
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| Waning | Late phases of the moon when the sunlit fraction we see from Earth is getting SMALLER.
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| Waxing | Early phases of the moon when the sunlit fractions we see from Earth is getting LARGER.
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