Across
- 2. If it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?
- 5. The Earth stays in orbit aroung the sun because of the sun's gravity and the Earth's forward _______.
- 7. The motion of one object around another object
- 8. The smallest changes in seasonal temperatures are near the _______.
- 9. The longest day of the year in one hemisphere and the shortest in the other.
- 10. The imaginary line running through the center of Earth on which it rotates (3 words)
- 13. The way the Earth spins if looking at the North Pole
- 15. The direction in which the sun rises
Down
- 1. The day that the sun shines equally on both hemispheres and the whole Earth has 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.
- 3. The force that pulls objects toward the center of Earth
- 4. A circular movement of an object around the center
- 6. the amount of time it takes for the Earth to rotate once. (2 words)
- 11. The amount of time it takes for the Earth to revolve around the sun. (2 words)
- 12. Newton's First Law of Motion states that an object at rest stays at _______.
- 14. If the earth had no tilt, there would be no _______.