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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Shadows
Shadows - C
Shadows
100
the time between sunrise and sunset
What is day?
100
the time between sunset and sunrise on Earth
What is night?
100

the point between night (darkness) and day (daylight). The time at which day first happens.

What is sunrise?

100
the point between day (daylight) and night (darkness). The time at which night first happens.
What is sunset?
100
causes the sun to appear to move across the sky
What is Earth's rotation on its axis?
200
the dark area behind an object that blocks light
What is a shadow?
200
matter through which light cannot travel. We cannot see through it.
What is opaque?
200

the direction in which the sun appears to rise in the sky

What is east?

200
the amount of time it takes the Earth to rotate on its axis one time
What is 24 hours?
200
direction the shadow is pointing at sunset
What is east?
300
to turn or spin on an axis
What is rotation?
300
an imaginary line around which a sphere or a planet rotates
What is an axis?
300

the length of a shadow at noon

What is short?

300
What is evening twilight called?
Dusk
300
direction in which the sun sets
What is west?
400
to move or travel around an object in a curved path
What is revolve or orbit?
400
the star at the center of our solar system around which all of the solar system objects orbit
What is the Sun?
400

direct that a shadow is pointing when the sun rises

What is west?

400
what can be learned by studying the length and direction of shadows
What is the approximate time of day?
400
length of time it takes for the Earth to orbit the sun
What is 356 days?
500
it happens in the morning and the evening.
What is twilight?
500
an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north
What is a compass?
500

Does everyone experience dusk and dawn at the same time?

No only the sides of Earth moving into or out of day.

500
length of time it takes the moon to orbit the Earth
What is one month?
500
What is really happening during a sunset?
Your place on Earth is turning away from our star, the Sun.