Science physics crossword puzzle
Across
- 4. A force between two objects that are touching.It usually acts to slow things down or prevent movement
- 5. A way of transferring energy by waves.Sound waves travel through substances.They cannot travel through a vacuum
- 6. Energy from the Sun.
- 14. A force that slows things down that are moving through water. It is caused by friction and by the object pushing the water out of the way
- 15. A point about which something turns. Another name for fulcrum.
- 16. The weight or force on something. For a machine, the load is the weight that is being moved.
- 17. A lever or other machine where the load moves further than the effort.
- 19. To change speed
- 20. A name used to describe energy when it is stored in stretched or squashed things that can change back to their original shapes.Another name for elastic potential energy.
- 21. A point about which something turns. Another name for a pivot.
- 22. The amount of force with which gravity pulls something towards the Earth
- 24. The speed of one object compared to another - both objects could be moving
- 25. A lever or other machine where the load is bigger than the effort.
Down
- 1. The idea that energy can never be created or destroyed, inly transferred from one store to another.
- 2. A way of describing the steepness of a line on a graph in numbers.
- 3. A name used to describe energy when it is stored in chemicals. Food, fuel and batteries all store chemical energy
- 7. A simple machine that consists of a long bar and a pivot. it can increase the size of a force or increase the distance the force moves.
- 8. A name used to describe energy when it is stored in objects in high spaces that can fall down
- 9. A name used to describe energy when is is stored in moving things
- 10. The turning effect of a force. It is calculated by multiplying the force by the perpendicular distance of the force from the pivot
- 11. The force put on something, especially a lever or other simple machine.
- 12. In balance.
- 13. Spread out
- 18. A name used to descrive energy when it is stored in hot objects. The hotter something is the more thermal energy it has.
- 23. Change shape