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| A force that pulls objects towards each other. |
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| The sun is the star that is nearest to Earth |
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| The ability to do work or cause a change. |
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| A kind of energy you can see |
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| Rainbows are formed _______________ |
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| White light is made up of _____________ |
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| When white sunlight passes through a _______, the different colors separate into a rainbow. |
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| Just after it rains, tiny drops of ________ act like prisms. |
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| A measure of how hot or cold something is. |
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| When tiny ice pieces bend sunlight, the bending forms a rainbow that looks like a circle around the sun. This is called a ________. |
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| When a full circle of light doesn't form, like it does with a halo, it is called a ________. |
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| Sun dogs often happen with the sun is _____ in the sky. |
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| One of natures most colorful light shows is called an ________. |
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| Aurora's often look like glowing _________________. |
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| Auroras happen when the sun's extreme heat produces tiny ___________ particles. |
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| Superhot particles crash into Earth's air near the poles and release __________ that transforms into different colors of light. |
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| __________ happen at night. |
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| ___________, ______________, or _____________ happen during the day. |
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| Rainbows, halos, sun dogs |
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| The _____ ______ produces rainbows, halos, sun dogs, and auroras. |
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| The sun's _________ helps keep Earth in orbit around the sun. |
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| Sunlight is _______ ________. |
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| White light actually contains _________ __________. |
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| Particles in the Earth's air are just the right size to scatter the ________ part of sunlight. |
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| When sunlight reaches the _____, the particles bounce the blue light all around. All other colors continue on to Earth. That is why the sky looks blue to us. |
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