BG2 Nate Haynes

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Across
  1. 3. the outermost layer of the earth
  2. 5. day the time it takes for Earth to rotate on its axis so that the sun appears in the same position in the sky.
  3. 6. a geographic coordinate that measures how far east or west a point is on Earth.
  4. 9. a thick layer of hot, dense rock that sits between the Earth's crust and core.
Down
  1. 1. a half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the equator, or into western and eastern halves by an imaginary line passing through the poles.
  2. 2. the point in the orbit of a planet when it is closest to the sun.
  3. 4. the slow movement of the axis of a spinning body around another axis due to a torque acting to change the direction of the first axis.
  4. 7. core the solid, innermost layer of Earth, made up of mostly iron and nickel.
  5. 8. equinox the day when the sun is directly above the equator, making day and night equal in length.