Science Ch 13

The path ones body takes in space as it revolves around another body?

Orbit
A pattern of stars named after a mythological or religious figure, an object or an animal?

constellation
An event that occurs when an object in space passes through the shadow of another object?

eclipse
A star and all the planets and other objects that revolve around it?

Solar system
Everything that exists including such things as stars, planets, gas, dust and energy?

Universe
The star at the center of out solar system?

Sun
The bending of light as it moves from one material to another?

refraction
An imaginary line around the earth equally distant from the north and south poles?

equator
A huge ball of very hot gases?

star
A natural body that revolves around a planet?

moon
To spin on an axis?

rotate
to travel in a closed path around another object?

revolve
a grouping of gas, dust and many stars, plus any object that orbits those stars?

galaxy
a body that revolves around a star?

planet
one of the shapes the moon seems to have as it orbits the earth?

moon phase
a large bowl shaped area on the surface of a planet or moon?

crater
An imaginary line that passes through earths center and its north and south poles?

axis

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Science Ch 13

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2010-02-05T00:31:48Z

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