Day and Night

Vocabulario

• axis Traducir IMG
  • imaginary line around which the earth rotates
• day Traducir IMG
  • a period of twenty-four hours as a unit of time, reckoned from one midnight to the next, corresponding to a rotation of the earth on its axis.
• imaginary Traducir IMG
  • existing only in the imagination.
• night Traducir IMG
  • the period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; the time from sunset to sunrise.
• rotation Traducir IMG
  • the movement of the earth on its own axis
• solar system Traducir IMG
  • the collection of eight planets and their moons in orbit around the sun, together with smaller bodies in the form of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.
• solstice Traducir IMG
  • either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.
• straight Traducir IMG
  • exactly vertical or horizontal; not curved
• sunset Traducir IMG
  • fall of sun below horizon
• tilt Traducir IMG
  • inclination

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