Earth and the Moon.
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micdsjbaur on May 9, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Telescope | To glass lenses in a long wooden tube. |
| Crater | Large round pits on the moon. |
| Phase | The different shapes of the moon you see from Earth. |
| Eclipse | When the moons shadow hits Earth or Earth's shadow hits the moon. |
| Tide | The rise and fall of the oceans water every 12.5 hours or so. |
| Astronomy | The study of the moon stars and other objects in space. |
| Axis | the imaginary line that passes through the Earth's center and the north and south poles. |
| Revolution | The movement of one object around another object. |
| Rotation | The motion of an object around an internal axis. |
| Orbit | The patch of an object as it revolves around another object in space. |
| Solstice | Each of the two days of the year when the noon sun is farther north or south of the equator. |
| Equinox | Each of the two days of the year when neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun. |
| Maria | A surface on the moon which has dark flat areas. Marie mean sea. |
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