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Mr Field Flashcards

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Orbit

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The path of a object in space as it moves around another object due to gravity

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Solar system

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

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Galaxy

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Million and billion of stars held together in a group by their own gravity

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Universe

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Space in all the matter and energy in it

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Satellite

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An object that orbits a more massive object

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Impact crater

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A round pet left behind on the surface of a planet after a smaller object strikes the surface

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Rotation

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An imaginary line which a turning body such as earth rotates

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Revolution

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The motion of one body around another , such as the earth in its orbit around the sun

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Season

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One of the pattern of temp change and other weather trends over the course of the year

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Equinox

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In a orbit position and time in which sun shines and equally on both hemispheres

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Solstice

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In a orbit ,a position and time during one hemisphere receives the maximum sunlight

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Mare

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Thea large plain solidified lava on the moon

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Eclipse

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

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Umbra

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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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Tides

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The rise and fall of oceans caused by gravitational pull of the moon and sun

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Astronomical unit

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Average distance from the sun which is 93,000,000

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Terrestrial

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A planet that has a rocky surface

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Gas giants

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

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Asteroid

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A small soiled rocky body orbits the sun

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Comet

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

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Meteor

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A brief streak of light produced y a particle entering earths atmosphere at high speed

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Meteorite

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A small object from outer spew that

Passes through atmosphere and reaches the surface

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Geosectric

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Earth centered theory of the solar system

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Heloectric

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A sun centered theory of the universe

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Gravity

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The force that objects extents on one another because of there’s mass

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Waxing

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The gradual increase of the illuminated surface of the moon

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Waning

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The graduate decrease of the Illuminati Ed surface of the moon

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Gibbous moon

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More than half but less then fully illuminated

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Crucent moon the illuminated surface is less than a quarter illuminated

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Crescent moon

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Full moon

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The entire surface of the moon is illuminated

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New moon

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The entire surface of the moon is not illuminated

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Quarter moon

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Half of the moon is illuminated

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