Day and Night/Seasons Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. the time it takes the Earth to complete one rotation around its axis
  2. 5. The period when the sun is in the sky
  3. 8. the longest day of the year, and the days get shorter after that day.
  4. 10. The Earth moving around the sun along its orbit.
  5. 13. not straight up and down, slanted or sloped
Down
  1. 2. The time is takes the Earth to complete its orbit around the sun
  2. 3. the spinning motion of the planet on its own axis. Rotate around the AXIS.
  3. 4. Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall
  4. 6. An imaginary line that runs through the North and South Poles, around which the Earth rotates.
  5. 7. the shortest day of the year, and the days get longer after that day.
  6. 9. the curved path that an object takes around another object in space
  7. 11. Occurs when the sun is directly above the equator. The lengths of the day and night are equal (12 hours each)
  8. 12. The period when the sun is not out