Cycle of Day and Night / The Seasons Vocabulary Test

A device that uses the position of the sun as it casts a shadow to measure time

• Compass
• Sundial
• Shadowdial

Turning around on an axis; spinning

• Earth
• Revolve
• Rotate
• Orbit

Waves of electromagnetic energy; electromagnetic energy that people can see

• Light
• Heat
• Helium and Hydrogen
• sunshine

To move around another object along a circular path, as in an orbit

• revolve
• rotate
• hyperdirve

The apparent shape of the lighted part of the moon that can be seen from Earth

• Orbit
• revolve
• rotate
• phase

Any star around which planets revolve

• Moon
• Planets
• Sun
• Galaxy

The circular path of an object as it revolves around another object

• rotate
• orbit
• planetary circles
• coments

A large circular mass that revolves around a star

• sun
• Star
• planet
• comet

An imaginary line that an object spins or revolves around

• axis
• orbit
• revolution
• equator

A period of the year determined by the position of Earth as it revolves around the sun

• day and night cycle
• season
• year
• zone