Seasons Choice Board

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Across
  1. 3. A real or imaginary straight line going through the center of an object that is spinning, or a line that divides a symmetrical shape into two equal halves.
  2. 4. Measures the distance north or south of the equator.
  3. 5. The planet on which we live on.
  4. 6. The star around which the planets revolve.
  5. 8. Sunlight that either passes through a medium—a window shade or the leaves of a tree
  6. 9. Sits more or less directly above Earth's north pole along our planet's rotational axis.
  7. 11. The verb orbit is the act of revolving around another object, usually on a circular or elliptical course.
  8. 12. The shortest day of the year.
  9. 14. Sunlight in which the path of light from the sun to the plant is a straight line.
  10. 15. The measure of hotness or coldness expressed in terms of any of several scales, including Fahrenheit and Celsius.
  11. 17. The half of the earth that lies south of the equator.
  12. 19. The northernmost point on the Earth, lying antipodally to the South Pole.
  13. 20. A fundamental change in political organization.
Down
  1. 1. When the sun appears the lowest in the sky, our days are shorter, and therefore our temperatures are colder.
  2. 2. When the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun.
  3. 7. An event in which a planet's subsolar point passes through its Equator.
  4. 10. The section of the Earth that is north of the Equator.
  5. 13. The South Pole is the southernmost point on Earth.
  6. 16. The action or process of rotating on or as if on an axis or center.
  7. 18. An equator is an imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial body.