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