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14 Cards in this Set
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Solar System
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The sun and the object that orbits the sun.
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Orbit
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Thepath an object takes as it moves around the object in space.
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Planet
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A large body of rock or gas that orbits the sun.
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Sun
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A hot ball of glowing gas.
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Revolution
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The movement of one object around another object.
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Rotation
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The spinning of an object on an axis.
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Phases
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The different shapes the moon seems to have in the sky when observed from Earth.
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Lunar Eclipse
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Happens when the Earths shadow falls on the moon.
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Solar Eclipse
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Happens when the moons shadow falls on the Earth.
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Star
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Hot ball of glowing gas like the sun.
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constellation
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A group of stars that form a pattern.
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Telescope
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Makes things look bigger when they are far away.
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4 Inner planets
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Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
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Outer Planets
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
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