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Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Gravity
The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth or toward any other physical body having mass.

Orbit
The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon.

Tides
The alternate rising and falling of the sea, usually twice in each lunar day at a particular place due to the attraction of the moon and sun.

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Rotation
The action of rotating around an axis or center.

Revolution
The movement of one object around a center of another object

Earths Axis & Tilt
The angle between an objects rotational axis and it's orbital axis

DAY / NIGHT

ALL THE TIME
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Seasons
Each four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter)

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Solstice
Either of the two times in the year the summer solstice and winter solstice when the sun reaches it's highest or lowest point in the sky at noon marked by the longest and shortest days.

Equinox
The time or date at which the sun crosses the celestially equator when day and night are of equal length.

4 hemispheres of Earth
The Western Hemisphere is a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian (which crosses Greenwich, London, United Kingdom) and east of the Antimeridian, the other half being called the Eastern Hemisphere.