Across
- 3. before middle of the day
- 4. our capital city that is aligned with the cardinal directions
- 5. a device for figuring out the hour of the day using the position of a shadow cast along a dial
- 7. a boundary the encircles the world, diving the sunlit half from the dark half
- 9. this exposure on a house will only have indirect sunlight and will be mostly shaded
- 11. after middle of the day
- 12. the direction Earth rotates towards
- 14. the direction in which the sun and moon set each day.
- 15. the round part of the sundial with numbers for measuring the hours
- 17. noon, when the sun reaches the meridian
- 18. the season when the sun's path is highest in the sky
- 19. the point in Earth's rotation when the sun is directly at the equator causing equal daylight and darkness.
Down
- 1. the pointer on the sundial that makes a shadow
- 2. an imaginary line that defines the middle of the sky
- 6. the astronomer who developed the Heliocentric model of the solar system
- 8. the reason our sunlit sky appears blue
- 10. the direction you should face to see the sun's movement through the sky
- 13. the time of transition between the daytime sky and nighttime sky
- 16. Earth rotates around this imaginary line
- 17. where the lands ends and meets the sky