Seasons Choice Board

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Across
  1. 3. an instance of revolving
  2. 6. each of the twelve named periods into which a year is divided.
  3. 8. The center of our solar system
  4. 9. the action of rotating around an axis or center.
  5. 10. The zone that New Jersey resides in
  6. 13. a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor.
  7. 14. a regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is cut by an oblique plane which does not intersect the base.
  8. 16. 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.
  9. 17. The southern most and Northern most zones
  10. 18. The planet that we live on
  11. 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
Down
  1. 1. March 21 and September 23
  2. 2. the period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; the time from sunset to sunrise.
  3. 4. 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°.
  4. 5. fly or move around in a circle.
  5. 7. the warmest zone closest to the equator
  6. 11. an imaginary line about which a body rotates.
  7. 12. an event that occurs when the Sun appears to reach its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. Two occur anually.
  8. 15. 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.
  9. 16. the most northerly circle of latitude on Earth at which the Sun can be directly overhead