Comp Science 2 Semester 1 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Occurs when light bends as it passes through a new medium
  2. 6. Law that explains that older layers are found deeper in the Earth than younger layers if they are undisturbed
  3. 10. Any factor that can change in an experiment
  4. 11. Plate boundary responsible for the formation of mountains
  5. 13. A description of what happens in nature under very specific conditions
  6. 17. This is what happens to light that allows us to see the color black
  7. 18. Creates sediment when rock is broken into little pieces
  8. 21. Type of heat transfer in which cold, dense fluid sinks and warm, less dense fluids rise
  9. 22. The distance between crests of a transverse wave
  10. 25. Type of rock that forms when magma cools and hardens
  11. 26. Process that moves sediment
Down
  1. 1. Occurs when light bounces back off of an object like a mirror
  2. 2. Lake that forms when deposition cuts off part of a meandering river
  3. 4. Type of dating that uses isotopes to get a more accurate age of fossils or Earth materials
  4. 5. Heat transfer that requires contact
  5. 7. Stored energy
  6. 8. An explanation of how or why something occurs in nature
  7. 9. Composed of the crust and upper mantle
  8. 12. Plate boundary responsible for the creation of new ocean floor
  9. 14. Energy of motion
  10. 15. A scientist does another scientist's experiment to see if they get the same results
  11. 16. Variable that is graphed on the Y-axis of a bar or line graph
  12. 19. The same scientist does an experiment multiple times
  13. 20. Plate boundary where earthquakes are most common
  14. 23. The variable that the scientist changes, AKA manipulated or independent variable
  15. 24. Made of iron and nickel