Science Crossword Puzzle - Lily Hornick

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Across
  1. 3. an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
  2. 4. 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, where it is light out.
  3. 5. A regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points
  4. 7. in the opposite direction to the way in which the hands of a clock move around.
  5. 9. the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch.
  6. 10. the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
  7. 11. is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor.
  8. 13. a view or opinion that is incorrect because based on faulty thinking or understanding.
  9. 17. each of the twelve named periods into which a year is divided.
  10. 19. 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, where it is dark out.
Down
  1. 1. A curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
  2. 2. the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
  3. 3. 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).
  4. 6. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system.
  5. 8. the time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun.
  6. 12. an imaginary line about which a body rotates.
  7. 14. the star around which the earth orbits.
  8. 15. the planet on which we live; the world.
  9. 16. 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).
  10. 18. the action of rotating around an axis or center.