Solar System vocab Flashcards
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Nebula
A
an interstellar cloud of dust
2
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Solar Nebula
A
what our solar system was a long time ago
3
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Nuclear Fusion
A
burning hydrogen to make mass amounts of energy turning it into helium
4
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Sunspot
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areas of decreased surface temperature
5
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Terrestrial Planets
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the inner planets closest to the sun
6
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Prograde Rotation
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rotating in the same direction as everything else
7
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Retrograde Rotation
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rotating counterclockwise
8
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Gas Giant
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a planet made up of gas
9
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Satellite
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an object that obits something else
10
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New Moon
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the new lunar phase
11
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Waxing Crescent
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It’s a setting moon, due to follow the sun below the western horizon.
12
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1st Quarter Moon
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half moon
13
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Waxing Gibbous
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semicircle shape of the moon
14
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full moon
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when you can see the moon full
15
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waning gibbous
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transits the median after midnight
