Systemwide Assessment Review

An imaginary line about which a body rotates.



• Tilt

• Axis

• Revolution

• Rotation

An eclipse in which the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth's shadow.

• Solar

• Lunar

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The action of spinning around an axis or center.

• Revolution

• Rotation

• Tilt

• Solstice

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An eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon.

• Solar Eclipse

• Lunar Eclipse

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The action by a heavenly body going round in a fixed course around another object.

• Rotation

• Tilt

• Revolution

• Axis

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The point during the Earth's orbit around the sun at which the sun is at its greatest distance from the equator, Marked by either the longest or shortest day of the year.

• Equinox

• Solstice

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The north and south poles of the Earth are not tilted towards or away from the sun, giving equal day and night.

• Equinox

• Solstice

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From the New moon the moon begins its orbit, and we see more of the moon become illuminated from Earth until it reaches the full moon.

• Waning

• Waxing

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From the full moon the moon completes its orbit, and we see less and less of the moon illuminated from earth until it becomes a new moon again.

• Waxing

• Waning

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As the moon orbits around the Earth, sunlight is reflected off the moon’s surface and that light reaches us on Earth.

• Sun phases

• Moon phases

• Solar System

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