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Earth In the Univers
6.E.1.1
Question | Answer |
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The spinning of Earth on its axis; the cause of day and night. | Rotation |
The movement of one object around another | Revolution |
An imaginary line running from the North Pole to the South Pole | Axis |
An elongated, circular path | Ellipse |
The two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator. | Solstice |
Day and night are each about 12 hours long everywhere on Earth | Equinox |
When the moon passes directly between the Earth and the sun blocking sunlight from the Earth | Solar Eclipse |
Occurs at a full moon when Earth is directly between the moon and the sun. | Lunar Eclipse |
The rise and fall of ocean water that occurs every 12.5 hours; caused mainly by differences in how much the moon’s gravity pulls of different parts of the Earth. | Tides |
n the opposite direction to the way in which the hands of a clock move around. | Counter Clock-wise |