Unit 5 Vocab Flashcard

Front

Term for a body's spinning on its axis?

Back

Rotation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Front

Time for Earth to complete one rotation?

Back

24 hours

Front

Motion of a body traveling around another in space.

Back

Revolution

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Front

Days for Earth to revolve around the Sun?

Back

365 1/4 days

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Front

Equinox: When sunlight shines equally on the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Back

Equinox

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Front

Solstice: Area of sunlight is max in one hemisphere, min in the other.

Back

Area of sunlight is at a maximum in one hemisphere and at a minimum in the other.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Front

Force exerted by mass that pulls other masses.

Back

Gravity

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Front

Lunar phases:

Back

Changes in the moon's appearance as it revolves around Earth and reflects sunlight.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Front

Eclipse: An event where one space object casts a shadow on another.

Back

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Front

Darkest part of a shadow in a lunar eclipse?

Back

Umbra

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1