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Whopper Day 1 Flashcards

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1
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Combination of all the forces acting on an object

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Net Force

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2
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Force that opposes the motion of any object

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Friction

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3
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An object’s motion will not change unless acted upon

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Law of Inertia (1st Law of Motion)

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4
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A type of force needed to overcome inertia of an object

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Unbalanced Force

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5
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Tendency of an object to resist a change in motion

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Inertia

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6
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Is a force

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Gravity

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7
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The rate of change in the speed of something

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Acceleration

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The amount of motion an object has. (It can be conversed) comes in many forms

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Momentum

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9
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Individual forces that are EQUAL magnitude and opposite

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Balanced Forces

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10
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Push and pull of an object resulting from the object interaction with another object

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Force

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11
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The act or process of moving a particular action or movement

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Motion

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12
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The rate or process at which something moves or travels

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Speed

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13
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The mass of an object is how much matter there is the force exerted by the gravity on that object

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2nd Law of Motion

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14
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For every action, there is an equal and opposite reactoion

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3rd Law of Motion

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15
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The time it takes an object ti revolve around the sun

Earth= 1 year (365 days)

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Revolution

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16
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The amount of time an object takes to rotate.

All 8 planets rotate or spin around an axis

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Rotation

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A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star

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Planet

18
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Share their orbits with other objects/smaller than planets far away and hard to study

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Dwarf Planet

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Are rocky, airless worlds that orbit our sun (Smaller than planets)

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Asteroid

20
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A small body moving in the solar system that would become become a meteor if it entered the Earth’s atmosphere

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Meteoroid

21
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Little chunks of rocks and debris in space

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Meteor

22
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When meteors fall through the planet’s atmosphere , pieces that survive the journey are called….

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Meteorite

23
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Cosmic snowball of frozen gases, rock and dust

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Comet

24
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One complete circuit around an orbited body

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Orbit

25
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An imaginary line about which an Earth rotates : the earth revolves on it’s ______ once every 24 hours

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Axis

26
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The day when the Earth’s rotation axis is most toward or away from the Sun

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Solstice

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The day when Earth’s rotation is leaning along the Earth’s orbit neither towards/nor from the sun

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Equinox

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An obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination

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Eclipse

29
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The different forms the Moon takes in its appearance from Earth. The lunar cycle is 29.5 days

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Phases

30
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The moon is between Earth and Sun (Can’t be seen)

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New Moon

31
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Moon’s little side increases

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Waxing Phase

32
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Half of the lighted side is visible

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First Quarter

33
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More than one quarter visible

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Waxing Gibbous

34
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All the Moon’s lighted side is visible

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Full Moon

35
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Less of the lighted side is visible

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Waning Phases

36
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After Full Moon, more than 1/2 of the little side of the Moon is visible

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Waning Gibbous

37
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1/2 of the lighted side is visible

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Third Quarter

38
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Last visible slice before a new moon

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Waning Crescent

39
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Dark flat area formed by lava 3-4 billion years ago

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Maria

40
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Large round pits caused by impacts of meteoroids

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Crater

41
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Oldest most highly cratered regions on the Moon

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Highlands

42
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

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