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Weather and climate
Water cycle
Earth and space patterns
Earth, sun, moon characteristics
Sedimentary rocks and fossil fuels
Changes to land
Interactions in Ecosystems
Adaptation
Traits
earth and space patterns
orbit
The path one object takes as it revolves around another object in space.
rotation
An object making complete turn on its axis.
axis
An imaginary line that a sphere rotates around.
shadow
A dark area caused when an object blocks light falling on a surface.
Equator
Imaginary line drawn around earth, deviding northern and Southern Hemispheres; at 0°.
latitude
Imaginary line that run east to west across the earth. They measure how many degrees north and south of the equator a place is located.
longitude
Imaginary line that runs north to south across the earth. They measure how many degrees east or west of the prime meridian.
day/night cycle
Cycle every 24 hours caused by earth rotating 12 hours of daylight 12 hours of darkness.
prime meridian
Imaginary line that runs through UK; runs 0° longitude splits east to west hemispheres.
sunrise
The instant the sun rises over the eastern horizon.
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5th grade science