Science Ch. 7 & 8 Vocabulary
Across
- 2. An unwanted substance added to land,water,or air.
- 6. Repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms.
- 13. Forces that build new features on Earth’s surface.
- 16. The changing of liquid to a gas.
- 17. All living materials and materials that were once alive.
- 19. The amount of water vapor in the air.
- 22. Frozen precipitation that forms in layers.
- 23. A storage area, usually for water.
- 24. A measure of how far a place is from the equator.
- 25. The decaying material in soil.
- 27. A slow process that breaks rocks in sediments.
- 30. The state of the atmosphere.
- 32. A type of energy resource that cannot be replaced at all or cannot be replaced as fast as people will use it.
- 33. The process in which a gas turns into a liquid.
- 34. A type of energy resource that can be replaced.
Down
- 1. A type of energy resource that will not run out.
- 3. A nonliving, naturally occurring solid that has its own regular arrangement of particles in it.
- 4. A mixture of nonliving materials and decayed materials and organisms.
- 5. Rocks that form when layers of materials and rock particles settle on top of each other and then harden.
- 7. The movement of materials away from a place.
- 8. Rocks formed inside Earth from other rocks under heat and pressure.
- 9. The pushing force of the atmosphere.
- 10. Frozen raindrops.
- 11. The average of weather conditions over a long time.
- 12. forces Forces that wear away or tear down features on Earth’s surface.
- 14. movement of air that redistributes heat on Earth.
- 15. Water that falls from clouds as rain,snow,sleet,or hail.
- 18. All the nonliving materials in the soil.
- 20. Process of laying down materials, such as rocks and soil.
- 21. All the waters of Earth.
- 26. A section of the lithosphere.
- 28. Height above sea level.
- 29. A process in which rocks are constantly being formed and destroyed.
- 31. Rocks that form when melted rock cools and hardens.