8th Grade Science Topics
Across
- 3. Type of dating rocks to determine age of layers or fossils
- 5. Air pressure associated with nice weather
- 6. Air pressure associated with lousy weather
- 8. Cloud of dust and gas in space
- 9. Movement of weathered rock
- 10. Global wind belt NH is in
- 11. Reason Earth has seasons
- 13. When one tectonic plate goes under another
- 15. Force that holds planets around sun in orbit
- 17. Type of Rain cloud
- 20. Cold Dry air mass
- 24. Largest planet in the solar system
- 25. Warm climate all year round
- 26. Superlarge landmass (all continents together)
- 29. Breaking rock into smaller pieces
- 30. Large system of rotating ocean currents
Down
- 1. Clumping of rock and dust by gravity
- 2. Ability of surfaces to reflect light (suns light)
- 4. Earth's crust broken into these.....
- 7. Short term atmospheric conditions
- 12. Rock made from fire (cooled magma)
- 14. Long term atmospheric conditions
- 16. Most clouds occur in this layer of atmosphere
- 18. Phase of moon when lunar eclipses occur
- 19. Two plates moving away from eachother
- 21. Less then half the moon illuminated
- 22. Liquid water turning to gas
- 23. Groundwater that does not inflitrate the ground
- 27. Thin layer of gas around the Earth
- 28. Study of natural phenomena and how and why stuff works