Across
- 5. pg. 256 A word used to describe the trip Earth takes around the sun.
- 6. pg. 257 This is why seasons are different in the northern and southern hemispheres.
- 10. pg. 262 The universe is doing this.
- 11. pg. 261 The star at which Earth is currently pointing towards.
- 12. pg. 260 Earth does this while rotating called axial procession.
- 13. pg. 258 This occurs twice a year when the tilt of the Earth is most directly pointed at the sun.
- 15. pg. 257 A more precise measure of the length of a day using a star's position.
- 16. pg. 258 The distance between the Earth and the sun depends on where Earth is in its ______.
Down
- 1. pg. 256 Earth does this as it rotates.
- 2. pg. 262 The speed of rotation is greatest here.
- 3. pg. 258 The textbook explains that there are _____ ways the distance of the Earth from the sun changes.
- 4. pg. 257 The difference between a sidereal day and a solar day is how many minutes?
- 5. pg. 255 A word used that means the earth spins.
- 7. pg. 259 Earth's tilt and spherical shape affect day length and ___.
- 8. pg. 259 Solar radiation strikes the Earth at different ___.
- 9. pg. 258 Earth's rotational ____ is tilted 23.5 degrees.
- 14. pg. 256 the shape of the two-dimensional plane that the Earth travels on.