Nature

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Play with a partner. Guess a letter: if it is in the word, write it in the blanks; if not, draw the next part of the hangman.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

1.

Hint: Plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture

2.

Hint: Of or relating to ___

3.

Hint: Produced under conditions involving intense heat

4.

Hint: Light soft moderately strong wood of ___ trees

5.

Hint: Stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern

6.

Hint: Diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight

7.

Hint: A hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish

8.

Hint: A sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay

9.

Hint: Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

10.

Hint: A sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement

11.

Hint: A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element

12.

Hint: Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation

13.

Hint: United States psychologist and psychophysicist who proposed ___' power law to replace Fechner's

14.

Hint: A state in southwestern United States

15.

Hint: A state in the western United States