Across
- 3. Earth has 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.
- 5. motion of one object around another object
- 9. The Earth stays in orbit around the sun because of the sun's
- 11. A force that makes an object follow a curved path
- 12. spinning motion
- 15. Imaginary line in the center of Earth on which it rotates (2 words)
- 17. The day that the sun shines equally on both hemispheres and the
Down
- 1. If the earth had no tilt, there would be no _______.
- 2. How many equinoxes are there each year?
- 4. The direction in which the sun rises
- 6. Time it takes for the Earth to revolve around the sun.(2 words)
- 7. The longest day of the year in one hemisphere
- 8. The way the Earth spins if looking at the North Pole
- 10. Smallest changes in seasonal temperatures are near the _______.
- 11. and the Earth's forward _______.
- 13. the amount of time it takes for the Earth to rotate once.
- 14. If it is summer in the N Hemisphere, what season in S Hemisphere?
- 16. a path an object follows as it moves around another object