environmental science
Across
- 2. a property of water that occurs when adhesion of water molecules to a surface is stronger than cohesion between molecules
- 3. A property of water that results from the cohesion of water molecules at the surface of a body of water and that creates a sort of skin on the waters surface
- 5. long chain of amino acids
- 8. an increase in the acidity of the oceans
- 9. the time It takes for one half of an original radioactive parent atom to decay
- 11. a substance that contributes hydrogen ions to a solution
- 14. a compound composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms
Down
- 1. anything that occupies space and has mass
- 4. the bond formed when elements share electrons
- 6. organic compounds found in all living cells
- 7. a measurement of the amount of matter an object contains
- 10. nucleic acids that translates the code stored in DNA
- 12. contains the genetic code for reproducing the next generation of offspring
- 13. the number that indicated the relative strength of acids and bases in a substance
- 15. A substance that contributes hydroxide ions to a solution