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Orbit
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The path Earth takes as it moves around the sun.
**The path of one object around another. |
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ellipse
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The shape of the Earth's orbit. Looks like a flattened circle.
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revolve / revolution
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one circle around another object.
**Movement in which Earth moves around the sun. **It takes Earth 1 year to do this. |
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rotate / rotation
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One full spin on an axis.
**It takes Earth 24 hours to do this. **The spinning of the Earth. |
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Axis
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An imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole
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