Across
- 3. an event that occurs when the Sun appears to reach its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. Two occur anually.
- 5. The zone that New Jersey resides in
- 7. an instance of revolving
- 8. the warmest zone closest to the equator
- 10. the action of rotating around an axis or center.
- 11. the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
- 13. a regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is cut by an oblique plane which does not intersect the base.
- 14. The center of our solar system
- 17. The southern most and Northern most zones
- 19. fly or move around in a circle.
Down
- 1. an imaginary line about which a body rotates.
- 2. each of the twelve named periods into which a year is divided.
- 4. the most northerly circle of latitude on Earth at which the Sun can be directly overhead
- 6. the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch.
- 9. the period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; the time from sunset to sunrise.
- 12. a period of twenty-four hours as a unit of time, reckoned from one midnight to the next, corresponding to a rotation of the earth on its axis
- 13. an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
- 15. The planet that we live on
- 16. a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor.
- 18. March 21 and September 23