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12 Cards in this Set
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Equinox
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two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun
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Gas Giants
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the first four outer plants: jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune
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Gravity
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the attractive force between 2 objects; force depends on mass and distance between them
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Orbit
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the path of an object as it revolves around another object in space
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Prominence
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a loop of gas that protrudes from the suns surface linking parts of sunspot regions
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Retrograde Rotation
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spinning motion of a planet from east to west
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Revolution
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the movement of an object around another object
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Rotation
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the spinning of an object about it's axis
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Satellite
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any object that revolves around another object in space
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Solar Eclipse
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the blocking of sunlight to earth that occurs when the moon is between the sun and earth
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Solstice
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two days of the year when the noon sun is directly overhead at either 23.5 degrees north or south
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Sunspots
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dark, cooler regions on the surface of the sun
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