Earth, Moon, Sun Vocabulary by Omar Sharman

Relative Position

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Definition: An object's position compared to another object.

Example in the Real World: The relative position of the moon is being compared to the earth.

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Definition: The movement of an object around another object

Example in real life: An example of revolution is the moon moving around the sun.

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Definition: Circular movement around an axis

Example in the real world: The earth rotates around the sun just like all the other planets.

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Definition: Having to do with the sky or space

Example in real life: There was a Celestial body made of stars in the Milky Way.

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Defintion: Relating to the moon

Example in the real world: Scientists still don't know when exactly the lunar eclipse will start.

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Definition: Relating to the sun

Example in real life: The earth is part of the Solar system

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Definition: Getting bigger

Example in real life: A lot of stars in the Milky Way are slowly waxing.

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Definition: getting smaller

Example in real life: The moon slowly was waning which only made some part of it visible.

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Definition: temporary stage that something is in

Example in real life: The stars were in a phase in which it became a Black Hole.

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Definition: an imaginary line about which a body rotates.

Example in real life: all the planets rotate on an axis around the earth.