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Tide

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

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

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Orbit

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Solar System

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The sun and its family of orbiting planets, moons, and other object

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Millions and billions of star held together in a group by there own gravity

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Galaxy

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Universe

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Space and all the matter and energy in it

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An object that orbits a more massive object

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Satellite

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Impact crater

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

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An imaginary line about which a turning body such as earth rotates

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Axis of rotation.

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The motion of one body around another

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Revolution

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Season

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One of a pattern of temperature changes other weather trends over the course of a year

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Exuinox

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

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12
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In an orbit, position and time during which hemisphere receives the maximum sunlight

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Solstice

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Mare

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A large dark plain of solidified lava on the moon.

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14
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An event during which one object in space cast a shadow onto another

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Eclipse

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Umbra

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The dark central region of a shadow

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16
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The lighter shadow that may surround the darker part of a shadow

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Penumbra

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

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AU

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An oval or flattened circle

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Ellipse

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A planet that has a rocky surface

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Terrestrial planet

20
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A large planet that consist mostly of gasses in a dense form

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Gas Giant

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A small solid rocky body that orbits the sun

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Asteroid

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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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Comet

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A small object from outer space that passes through earths atmosphere at a high speed

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Meteor

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A small object from outer space that passes through earths atmosphere and reaches the surface

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Meteorite

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Earth centered theory

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Geocentric

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A sun centered theory of the universe

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Heliocentric theory

27
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Force that objects exert on one another because of there mass

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Gravity

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The gradual increase of the illuminated surface of the muon

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Waxing

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The gradual decrease of the illumination of the moon

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Wanning

30
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More than half but less than fully illuminated

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Gubbius

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The surface is less than a quarter light he’d

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Crescent

32
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The moons surface is completely illuminated

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Foul moon

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No moon is illuminated

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New moon

34
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Half the moon is illuminating

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Half moon

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