Winter Solstice Word Search

Words in the Winter Solstice word search

Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.

sun

Reaches its lowest midday point of the whole year

night

The longest one of the year in that hemisphere

cold

Lowest temperatures usually arrive weeks after the solstice

snow

Common at northern latitudes around this date

dark

Afternoons end early in the weeks around it

december

Northern solstice falls on the twenty first or twenty second

candle

Lit in many midwinter customs across northern Europe

sunset

Earliest sunsets happen slightly before the solstice

sunrise

Latest sunrises come in early January, not December

winter

Astronomical winter begins in the north at the solstice

daylight

Shortest daylight of the year, then slowly longer

solstice

Latin for sun standing still, from sol and sistere

shortest day

Fewest daylight hours of the year

north pole

Sees no sunrise at all around the December solstice

earth tilt

The axis leans about twenty three and a half degrees

bonfire

Large outdoor fire lit at midwinter gatherings

lantern

Carried in solstice walks and festivals of light

evergreen

Trees that stay green through the darkest weeks

stonehenge

English stone circle aligned with the solstice sunset

frost

Ice crystals that form on cold clear mornings

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