5.8C Rotation: Day/Night Cycle Vocabulary

The path an object takes as it moves around another object in space.

• orbit

• rotaion

• axis

• shadow

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An imaginary line in which a planet rotates around from North to South pole

• Day/Night cycle

• apparent movement

• shadow

• axis

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To turn or spin on an axis, Earth takes 24 hours or 1 day to complete one full rotation.

• orbit

• axis

• sunrise

• rotation

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the cycle is caused by the rotation of the Earth on it's axis; during this cycle it appears as thought the Sun moves across the sky and we experience day and night

• apparent movement

• shadow

• day/night cycle

• axis

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Day and night; the rising and setting of objects in the sky, looks like is moving but is not.

• day/night cycle

• apparent movement

• shadow

• axis

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A dark area that forms when an object blocks light. Low in the sky = Long shadow, High in the sky = Shortest shadow

• shadow

• rotation

• apparent movement

• orbit

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dawn; when the sun shows above the horizon in the east (early morning)

• axis

• rotation

• sunrise

• orbit

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when the sun appears to fall below the horizon in the west (West time to rest)

• sunset

• sunrise

• axis

• orbit

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to cause to lean, incline, slope, or slant

• sunrise

• sunset

• tilt

• rotation

caused by the Earth's tilt on its axis as it moves around the sun. 4 (spring, summer, fall, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours.

• sunrise

• shadow

• tilt

• seasons

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