Science Crossword puzzle
Across
- 5. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system.
- 8. the section of the Earth that is north of the Equator
- 10. the biggest star in our solar system
- 12. 30 days =
- 14. a triple star
- 15. a system of lines used to describe the location of any place on Earth
- 17. the opposite way the clock is going
- 20. 24 hours = ?
Down
- 1. A closed curve, consisting of all points whose distances from each of two fixed points (foci) add up to the same value
- 2. Temperature is the amount of heat in something. It's measured with a thermometer
- 3. a wrong or mistaken idea
- 4. is when something turns or spins around a point located at its center
- 6. when its dark outside its...
- 7. 12 months = ?
- 9. the area of Earth that is south of the Equator
- 11. Earth's ____ is 23.5 degrees
- 13. the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun reaches its maximum or minimum declination, marked by the longest and shortest days (about June 21 and December 22).
- 16. the star that stays in one place
- 18. the line going horizontally through the Earth
- 19. the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of approximately equal length (about September 22 and March 20).