Across
- 3. A natural or artificial body that orbits a planet
- 5. An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the Equator
- 6. A huge ball of very hot gases in space
- 8. the relationship between the distance shown on a map and the actual distance
- 10. Distance between a place on the Earth's surface and the Greenwich Meridian
- 12. A two-dimensional, or flat, representation of Earth's surface
- 14. The imaginary line around which Earth rotates
- 16. Imaginary line that runs around the earth and divides it into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
- 18. A way of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface
- 19. Numbers used to give the exact location of a place on the Earth
- 20. An imaginary line that connects the North Pole and the South Pole
Down
- 1. Imaginary line running through Greenwich, England, from the North to the South pole at 0 degrees longitude
- 2. Distance between a place on the Earth's surface and the Equator
- 4. Sun, planets, and other objects that orbit the sun
- 5. A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star
- 7. A map that shows surface features of an area such as mountains, rivers, roads
- 9. A large group of stars and planets held together by gravity
- 11. The name of our galaxy, that contains the Earth and the Solar System
- 13. Areas between two meridians sharing the same time
- 15. The science of making maps
- 17. One half of the Earth
