Space Flashcards

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Orbit

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is a repeating object that’s in space and goes around another orbit.

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Solar system

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Is orbits traveling around the sun

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Galaxy

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stars, clouds,gas, and dust that move together through the galaxy

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Universe

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Is everything you can touch,feel,sense, and directed

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satellite

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is a small object that orbits or revolves around or even a larger object in space.

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Impact crater

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areas in the ground that is made when large rocks from space, smash into Earth.

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Rotation

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Is when orbits moves around the earth

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Season

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Earths tilted axis causes the seasons

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Equinox

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An equinox is commonly regarded as the instant time

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Solstice

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highest or lowest point of the sky at noon

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Mare

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Dark plain of lower elevation on the moon

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Eclipse

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is where sun and moon over laps together and it’s called eclipse

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Penumbra

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The outer part of chronicle shadows

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Umbra

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The full shade in a region of the shadows cast

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Astronomical

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Astronomers is a natural science that studies crystal objects

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Unit (AU)

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is about the unit of length

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Terrestrial Planet

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The terrestrial planets are the inner planets closest to the sun

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Gas Giant

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A large plant of re-relative low density low consistency

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Asteroid

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Or minor planets especially in the solar system

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Comet

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cosmetic snowballs a frozen gasfrozen gas

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Meteor

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Meteor are no more than dust and ice

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Meteorite

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Is a fragment of rock or iron

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Geocentric

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Having a representative the earth as the center

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Heliocentric

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Having or representing the sun as the center

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Gravity

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A force of attracting that exist

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Tide

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Are the rise and fall of the level of the ocean

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Waxing

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Is maxing or growing with light until a full moon is reached

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Wannig

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Phase of the moon during the lunar circle

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Perihelion

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Is the point in the orbit of a planet

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Aphelion

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And that is a point in the orbit of an object

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Gibbous Moon

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Appears more then lighted

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Full moon

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is the lunar phase when the Moon

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Crescent moon

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is used to represent the Moon,

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New moon

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marks the first lunar phase.

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Quarter Moon,

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Is the first part of the moon