Seasons
Across
- 1. the measure of hotness or coldness
- 5. The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center
- 7. something big that hit Earth and knocked it off-kilter
- 8. a measure of time corresponding nearly to the period of the moon's revolution and amounting to approximately 4 weeks or 30 days or ¹/₁₂ of a year
- 13. a regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one
- 14. is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, hot ball of plasma, inflated and heated by energy
- 15. measures the distance north or south of the equator
- 16. A year is the time taken for astronomical objects to complete one orbit
- 17. the star of the northern hemisphere toward which the axis of the earth points
- 18. the measurement east or west of the prime meridian
Down
- 2. the third planet from the Sun
- 3. moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move
- 4. sunlight in which the path of light from the sun to the Earth is a straight line
- 6. the time between dusk and dawn when there is no sunlight
- 8. a wrong or inaccurate idea or conception
- 9. the action or process of rotating on or as if on an axis or center
- 10. a real or imaginary straight line going through the center of an object that is spinning, or a line that divides a symmetrical shape into two equal halves
- 11. an imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial body
- 12. a star that appears almost directly above the Earth's rotational axis
- 19. a division of time equal to 24 hours and representing the average length of the period during which the earth makes one rotation on its axis and the sun is facing the Earth