Days, Years, Seasons
Across
- 3. the medium-sized star at the center of our solar system
- 4. a lean, incline, slope or slant
- 6. the imaginary line about which a celestial body rotates
- 9. the path that a body follows as it travels around another body in space
- 11. the time required for the Earth to orbit once around the sun
- 13. an imaginary line drawn around Earth equally distant from both poles, dividing Earth into two hemispheres
- 15. spinning motion of a planet on its axis
- 16. a division of the year determined by Earth's tilt relative to the Sun & Earth's position in its orbit
Down
- 1. a celestial body that orbits a star, is large enough to have become rounded by its own gravity & has cleared the area of its orbit
- 2. the time it takes a planet to make one orbit around the Sun
- 5. the time required for Earth to rotate once on its axis
- 7. a natural or artificial body that orbits another body in space
- 8. the two days per year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equator
- 10. a force of attraction between objects that depends on mass & distance
- 12. the two days per year when days and nights are of equal length as neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the Sun
- 14. change in position relative to a reference point