Chapter 17 Crossword
Across
- 2. a source of energy that cannot be replaced
- 5. the worlds most abundant fossil fuel
- 7. the practice of reducing energy
- 10. an icelike solid that consists of molecules of methane within a crystal network
- 13. the ability to do work or cause a change
- 14. when sulfide minerals in exposed rock surfaces and react with oxygen and rain water
- 16. energy made by the flow of an electric charge
- 18. a dark liquid fossil fuel made up of hydrocarbons
- 20. when atoms nucleus is split into two smaller nuclei
Down
- 1. a source of energy that is almost always available
- 3. the energy that holds protons and neutrons in the nucleus
- 4. radioactive material left over from the production of energy
- 6. deposits of moist sand and clay containing bitumen
- 8. the energy an object has due to its motion
- 9. energy that an object has due to shape or position
- 11. what fossil fuels put out into the air after being burnt.
- 12. the extraction of a mineral by removing a strip of the layers of soil and rock.
- 15. when small nuclei of lightweight elements are forced together to form a heavier nucleus
- 17. the practice of digging shafts deep into the ground to find minerals
- 19. rock filled with a mixture of hydrocarbons