Planets and solar system
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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| Axis | An imaginary line running through the center of Earth from the North pole to the south pole
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| Rotation | The turning of an object on an axis
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| Revolution | The movement of one object in an orbit around another object
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| Eclipse | An event that occurs when one object passes into the shadow of another object
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| Tides | They are the regular rising and falling of the oceans surface caused mostly by the moon's gravitational pull pull on earths oceans
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| New Moon | The phase of the moon in which only a dim outline of it's shape is visible
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| First Quarter Moon | The phase of the moon when it is one quarter of the way through its orbit and we see half of the moon lighted
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| Full Moon | The phase of the moon in which we see the entire moon lighted and it appears bright and round.
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| Third Quarter Moon | The phase of the moon when it is three quarters of the way through its orbit and we see half of the moon lighted.
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| Asteroid | A piece of rock and metal that orbits the sun
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| Sattellite | A body in space that orbits a larger body.
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| Meteor | A piece of rock that is smaller than asteroid that enters earth's atmosphere and burns up
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| Comet | A ball of ice, rock and frozen gases that orbit the sun.
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| Galaxy | A huge system of stars.
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