8th Grade Science Vocabulary Ch. 1- Ch. 4
Across
- 1. is a personal and often unreasoned judgment for or against one side in a dispute (prejudice)
- 3. a flatland that has been raised in elevation
- 6. stress of pushing landmasses together
- 8. Man's best friend
- 10. slowest seismic wave causes the most damage
- 12. fault where the hanging wall slides down
- 13. Flying mammal
- 14. Likes to chase mice
- 17. fault where the hanging wall moves upward above the footwall
- 19. amount of space an object takes up (ml or m2)
- 20. fastest seismic wave (compressional)
- 21. can change when the gravitational pull changes (N)
Down
- 2. the stress of landmasses sliding past one another
- 4. the shaking of the earth directly above the focus
- 5. another name for an average of numbers
- 7. the point in the earth where the rocks are broken due to stress
- 9. amount of mass per unit volume
- 11. violent shaking of the earth caused by reducing stress on the earth
- 15. amount of matter in an object (kg)
- 16. stress of pulling landmasses apart
- 18. a conclusion from facts or premises (what happened)
- 20. telling what may happen in the future