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1
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What is a revolution?

A

Time it takes an object to revolve around the sun once.

2
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What is a planet?

A

Large circular objects that revolve around the sun.

3
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What is a asteroid?

A

Rocky airless worlds that orbit our sun

4
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What is a meteor?

A

Meteoroids when they fall through a planets atmosphere leaving a bright trail.

5
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What is a meteorite?

A

Pieces of meteoroids that survive the journey and hit the ground.

6
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What is a rotation?

A

Amount of time that an object takes to rotate once,.

7
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What is a dwarf planet?

A

Share there orbit around the sun with other objects.

8
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What is a comet?

A

A cosmic snowball of frozen gasses,rock and dust roughly the size of a small town.

9
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What is orbit

A

Follows a path around the sun making a complete revolution.

10
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What is solstice?

A

Day when the earth rotational axis is the most toward or away from the sun.

11
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What is a phase?

A

Different forms the moon takes in it’s appearance from earth.

12
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What is a crater?

A

Large, round pits caused by impacts of meteoroids.

13
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What is an axis?

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An imaginary line on which the earth rotates.

14
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What is an equinox?

A

Days when earth’s rotation is leaning along the Earths orbit neither toward of away from the sun.

15
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What is a maria?

A

Dark,flat areas formed from lava 3-4 billion years.

16
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What is a eclipse?

A

When the earth or moon cast a on the other.

17
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What are the planets in order?

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Mercury,Venus,Earth,Mars,Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus,Neptune,

18
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What is Force?

A

Push or pull on an object.

19
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What is a Reference point?

A

The object that appears to stay in place.

20
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What is speed?

A

The rate at witch something moves of travels.

21
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What is friction?

A

Force two surfaces exert on each other when they rub against each other.

22
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What is Momentum?

A

Amount of motion an object has.

23
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What is motion?

A

The act or process of moving.A particular action or movement.

24
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What is acceleration?

A

the rate of something over time.

25
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What is velocity?

A

Speed of an object in a particular direction.

26
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What is gravity?

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The force of attraction between two objects.

27
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What is inertia?

A

Tendency of an object to resist change in motion or rest.

28
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What is net force?

A

Adding or subtracting individual forces gives a combined force.

29
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What is an unbalanced force.

A

An individual force that is not being balanced.

30
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What is a balanced force?

A

Two individual forces that are of equal magnitude and opposite direction.