Chapter 1 - Day
Across
- 5. the direction Earth rotates on its axis
- 7. the direction you should face to see the sun's movement through the sky
- 8. the direction in which the sun and moon set each day
- 9. an imaginary line that defines the middle of the sky
- 11. the round part of the sundial with numbers for measuring the hours
- 12. our sun reflects this causing our sunlit sky to appear blue
- 15. the point in Earth's rotation when the sun shines directly on the equator causing equal daylight and darkness
- 16. the pointer on the sundial that makes a shadow
- 17. before middle of the day
- 18. when the sun reaches the meridian
- 19. this exposure on a house will only have indirect sunlight and will be mostly shaded
- 20. the season when the sun's path is highest in the sky
Down
- 1. Earth rotates around this imaginary line
- 2. a boundary that encircles the world, dividing the sunlit half from the dark half
- 3. after middle of the day
- 4. our capital city that is aligned with cardinal directions
- 6. a device for figuring out the hour of the day using the position of a shadow cast along a dial
- 10. where the land ends and meets the sky
- 13. the time of transition between the daytime sky and nighttime sky
- 14. the astronomer who developed the Heliocentric model of the solar system