Astronomy vocab

What is "spinning of the Earth on its axis"?

• Orbit

• Equinox

• Rotation

• Gravity

Time when the Sun is farthest from the equator

• Solstice

• Equinox

• Revolution

• Axis

What is "the partial or total blocking of one object in space by another"?

• Rotation

• Gravity

• Revolution

• Eclipse

What is the definition of axis?

• An imaginary line around which a body, such as Earth, rotates

• To move in an elliptical path, like the planets around the Sun

• The force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses

• Time when the Sun is farthest from the equator

To move in an elliptical path, like the planets around the Sun

• Axis

• Orbit

• Revolution

• Eclipse

What is the definition of gravity?

• The spinning of the Earth on its axis

• The partial or total blocking of one object in space by another

• The two days of the year in which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the Sun

• The force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses

The two days of the year in which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the Sun.

• Equinox

• Solstice

• Gravity

• Revolution

The movement of an object around another object.

• Axis

• Equinox

• Revolution

• Rotation