Science Terms

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Molten rock in the earth's crust (5)
  2. 5. An abstract part of something (plural) (8)
  3. 8. The environment as it relates to living organisms (7)
  4. 11. An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals (12)
  5. 13. A ___ in the spectra of very distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths (8)
  6. 15. A detailed critical inspection (5)
  7. 16. Tiniest unit of living things (4)

Down

  1. 1. Rolling swells on the sea (5)
  2. 2. An impelling force or strength (8)
  3. 4. The power to do work or make things move (6)
  4. 6. Energy made available by the flow of ___ charge through a conductor (11)
  5. 7. An elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton (plural) (8)
  6. 9. Deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy (7)
  7. 10. Distance travelled per unit time (8)
  8. 12. The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element (plural) (5)
  9. 14. How fast something moves (5)