Vocabulary Book Quiz #4 2025-2026

The period of about 365¹/₄ solar days required for one revolution of the earth around the sun.

• Earth

• day

• celestial

• year

The action by a celestial body of going round in an orbit or elliptical course.

• revolution

• rotation

• axis

• celestial body

The planet on which we live that is third in order from the sun.

• rotation

• Universe

• Earth

• year

A path described by one body in its revolution about another.

• orbit

• longer

• revolve

• hotspot

A straight line about which a body or a geometric figure rotates or may be supposed to rotate.

• orbit

• axis

• Earth

• year

the luminous celestial body around which the earth and other planets revolve, from which they receive heat and light.

• sphere

• hydrogen

• sun

• earth

The time of light between one night and the next.

• night

• day

• light

• sun

The time from dusk to dawn when no sunlight is visible.

• night

• day

• sun

• Earth

To cause to have an inclination.

• forward

• tilt

• Earth

• spherical

The action or process of rotating on or as if on an axis or center

• distance

• rotation

• complete

• latitude