Across
- 2. the half of Earth that is north of the equator.
- 4. the object's spinning motion about its own axis.
- 5. the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun reaches its maximum or minimum declination, marked by the longest and shortest days (about 21 June and 22 December).
- 6. the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of approximately equal length (about 22 September and 20 March).
- 7. the period between afternoon and bedtime; an evening.
- 9. an imaginary line about which a body rotates.
Down
- 1. the area of Earth that is south of the Equator.
- 3. each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun.
- 4. the object's orbital motion around another object.
- 8. each of the twenty-four-hour periods, reckoned from one midnight to the next, into which a week, month, or year is divided, and corresponding to a rotation of the earth on its axis.
