Generating Electricity

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Slippery liquid used for cooking and fuel (3)
  2. 5. State of matter that fills any space, like air (3)
  3. 8. Of or relating to or used in the production of electricity by waterpower (13)
  4. 12. Engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction (9)
  5. 13. The total mass of living matter in a given unit area (7)
  6. 14. Any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear ___ for the production (7)
  7. 15. Of or relating to or caused by tides (5)
  8. 16. Relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun (5)

Down

  1. 1. Deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy (7)
  2. 2. The remains of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated (6)
  3. 3. Moving air (4)
  4. 6. Of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth (10)
  5. 7. Rolling swells on the sea (5)
  6. 9. Capable of being ___ (9)
  7. 10. Rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy (7)
  8. 11. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period (4)