Science Word Search

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element (plural) (5)
  2. 5. An elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton (7)
  3. 7. Big cat known as king of the jungle (4)
  4. 8. One of two or more atoms with the same atomic number but with different numbers of neutrons (7)
  5. 9. How plants make food from sunlight (14)
  6. 12. Dry land with very little rain (6)
  7. 15. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)
  8. 16. A trivalent metalloid element (5)

Down

  1. 1. An abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous ___ (6)
  2. 3. Distance travelled per unit time (8)
  3. 4. Force that pulls objects toward the Earth (7)
  4. 6. The mechanical ___ that a body has by virtue of its motion (13)
  5. 10. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses (6)
  6. 11. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  7. 13. A stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron (6)
  8. 14. Striped African relative of the horse (5)