Earth In Space Vocab

Question 0

Rotation

Answer 0

The spinning motion of a planet on its axis.

Question 1

Axis

Answer 1

An imaginary line that passes through a planet’s center and its north and south poles, about which the planet rotates.

Question 2

Revolution

Answer 2

The movement of one object around another.

Question 3

Orbit

Answer 3

The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space.

Question 4

Solstice

Answer 4

Either of the two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator.

Question 5

Equinox

Answer 5

Means equal night; this occurs halfway between the solstices; it is the two days of the year in which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun