Reasons for the Seasons!

4. In a direction opposite to that in which the hands of a clock rotate.
6. The period of darkness every twenty-four hours; the time from sunset to sunrise.
7. The time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun.
10. The distance east or west of the prime meridian.
12. The action of the earth turning or spinning around its center.
15. Each of the twelve named periods into which a year is divided.
16. The distance north or south of the equator.
17. When the position of the Sun is exactly over the Equator.
19. Known as the North Star, is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor, situated slightly less than 1° from the north celestial pole.
20. An invisible line around which an object rotates, or spins.

1. The act of revolving or turning round on an axis or a center.
2. The amount of heat in something.
3. A moment in the year when the Sun's apparent path in the sky is farthest north or south from Earth's Equator.
5. An imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial.
8. A closed curve, consisting of all points whose distances from each other add up to the same value.
9. A view or opinion that is incorrect because based on faulty thinking or understanding.
11. 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.
13. A regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another object.
14. The third planet from the sun in our solar system.
18. A hot ball of gases that gives off great amounts of energy.