Science Midterm Chapters 1-4
Across
- 6. Helps to regulate the temperature of the Earth by trapping the heat from the Sun
- 8. The process the Sun uses to produce energy/light
- 10. The process that Sir Benjamin Thompson observed to disprove caloric
- 11. The amount of matter in an object
- 15. The spectrum of electromagnetic radiation
- 16. Energy of motion
- 17. Specific values in the equations of physics that govern the natural world
- 18. Dissolves minerals, makes up over 70% of the Earth's surface and regulates the temperature of the planet
- 20. The position in the solar system that keeps Earth from getting too hot or too cold
Down
- 1. Laws that govern how nature behaves
- 2. A disproved weightless gas that flowed from hot to cold objects
- 3. A kind of potential energy found stored in chemical bonds
- 4. The name Albert Einstein gave to particles of energy
- 5. Discovered that heat is produced by kinetic energy
- 7. Shield around Earth produced by its iron core that protects the Earth from solar wind
- 9. How the natural world works
- 12. Depends on gravity and will change based on location
- 13. A kind of potential energy found in the gravitational attraction of two objetcs
- 14. Stored energy
- 19. Stablizies the tilt of Earth's axis