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Earth Science chapter 27 vocab

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Electromagnetic spectrum   arranged according to wavelength and frequency,  
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Refracting telescope   used lenses to bring visible light to a focus.  
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Reflecting telescope   Telescopes that bring visible light to a focus with mirrors  
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Interferometry   technique that uses the images from several telescopes to produce a single image  
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Albedo   percentage of incoming sunlight that its surface reflects  
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Highland   heavily cratered regions of the moon that are in light color and mountainous  
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Mare   dark, relatively smooth plains  
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Impact crater   craters on the moon  
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Ejecta   The material blasted out during these impacts fell back to the moons surface  
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Ray   radiate outward from the impact site much like spokes on a bike wheel  
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Rille   Valley like structures that might be collapsed lava tubes  
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Regolith   breaking and heating of surface rocks and resulted in a layer of loose, ground up rock  
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Ecliptic plane   the plane of earths orbit  
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Solstice   the sun is overhead at its farthest distance either north or south of the equator  
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equinox   Earths axis is perpendicular to the sun's rays and at noon the sun is directly overhead the equator  
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synchronous ratation   The state at which its orbital and rotational periods are equal  
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Solar Eclipse   Occurs when the moon passes directly between the sun and the earth and blocks the sun from view.  
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Perigee   The closest point in the moons orbit to earth  
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Apogee   The farthest point in the moons orbit to the earth  
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Lunar eclipse   occurs when the moon passes behind Earth in relation to the sun  
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