Moon/space Flashcards

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the circular path of an object as it revolves around another object due to gravity

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Orbit

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The sun and its family of orbiting planets, and moons, and other objects

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Solar system

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Millions or billions of stars held together in a group by their own gravity

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Galaxy

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4
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Space and all the matter and energy in it

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Universe

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An object that orbits a more massive object

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Satellite

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A round pit left behind on the surface of a planet or other body in space after another smaller object strikes the surface

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Impact crater

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An imaginary line about which a turning body such as earth rotates

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Axis of rotation

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The motion of one body around another, example of earth around the sun

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Revolution

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One part of a pattern of temperature changes, and other weather trends over the course of the year

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Season

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In an orbit, a position and time in which sunlight shines equally on the northern and southern hemisphere

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Equinox

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In an orbit, a position and time during which ones hemisphere receives its maximum area of sunlight while the other hemisphere receives it minimum amount.

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Solstice

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12
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A large dark plain of solidified lava on the moon

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Mare

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13
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An event during which one object in space casts a shadow onto another

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Eclipse

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The dark central region of a shadow, such as the cone of complete shadow cast by an object

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Umbra

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15
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The region of lighter shadow that may surround a dark central region. The spreading cone of lighter shadow cast by an object

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Penumbra

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16
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Average distance from the sun which is approximately 93,000,000 miles or 150 million kilometers

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Astronomical Unit (AU)

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An oval or flattened circle

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A planet that has a rocky surface

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Terrestrial planets

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A large plane that consists mostly of gases in a dense form

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a small rocky body orbiting the sun.

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A body that produce a coma of gas and dust, a small icy body that orbits the sun

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a brief streak of light produced by the particle entering earths atmosphere at high speed

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A small object from outer space that passes through earths atmosphere and reaches the surface

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Earth centered theory of the solar system

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Geocentric

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A sun centered theory of the solar system
Heliocentric
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The force that objects exert on one another because of their mass
Gravity
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The rise and fall of the ocean levels caused by the gravitational pull of the moon
Tide
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The gradual increase of the illuminated surface of the moon
Waxing
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(of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in si
Waning
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(of the moon) having the observable illuminated part greater than a semicircle and less than a circle.
Gibbous moon
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the curved sickle shape of the waxing or waning moon.
Crescent
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the phase of the moon in which its whole disk is illuminated.
Full moon
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the phase of the moon when it is in conjunction with the sun and invisible from earth, or shortly thereafter when it appears as a slender crescent.
New moon
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Third Quarter. The moon is one-half illuminated by the sun. Occurs when the moon'sillumination is decreasing, Waning Crescent. The moon is less than one-half illuminated by the sun but less than one quarter illuminated
Quarter moon