Earth's Postitons
Across
- 2. when day and night are of approximately equal in duration all over the planet
- 4. 365.25 days; the time it takes Earth to revolve around the sun
- 6. the solstice that marks the onset of winter,shortest day,
- 8. 24 hours; caused by the Earth's rotation includes times of darkness and light
- 10. the period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; the time from sunset to sunrise
- 11. a half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the equator
Down
- 1. the solstice that marks the onset of summer,longest day
- 2. an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres
- 3. the path an object follows as it revolves around another object
- 5. imaginary line that extends out of the earth from the North and South pole
- 7. to turn like a top;spin,this movement by Earth causes day and night
- 9. something that repeats continuously in the same pattern
- 12. summer,winter,spring,fall; caused by the Earth's tilt of 23.5 degrees as it revovles
- 13. to move around another object, this is caused by Earth's tilt on its axis