Topic 11 Scienece Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Planets appear to move against the background of _____
  2. 4. Stars generally appear to move from ____ to west through the night
  3. 7. ____ is the tendency of an object to resist a change in motion.
  4. 8. Halfway between solstices, neither hemisphere is tilted ___ the sun
  5. 11. One revolution of Earth around the sun takes one _____
  6. 12. The moon rotates _____ on its axis in the same time that it takes to revolve once around Earth.
  7. 14. ____ is the movement of one object around another
Down
  1. 2. Without Earth's gravity, the moon would veer away from Earth in a ___ line.
  2. 3. The solstices and equinoxes occur at ____ times in the North and Southern Hemispheres.
  3. 4. When we look at areas near the ____, we see that sunlight hits Earth's surface very directly
  4. 5. Helios is Greek for _____
  5. 6. A ______ is a ride with the least difference between consecutive low and high tides.
  6. 9. The hemisphere that is tilted toward the sun has more hours of ____ than night
  7. 10. The ellipse brings the planet closest to the sun in ____
  8. 13. After about a week, the angle formed by the sun, moon, and Earth is about ___ degrees.