What Is An Atom And How Do We Know?
Across
- 1. the Greek thinker who first proposed the idea of atoms
- 4. the chart that lists all 118 elements
- 6. a tool used to see very small things normal ones can’t see atoms
- 8. physicist who proposed an experiment confirming atoms exist
- 12. anything that has mass and takes up space made of atoms
- 14. microscope that allowed scientists to feel and see atoms
Down
- 2. a scientific test done to learn something or confirm a theory
- 3. English schoolteacher who found mathematical evidence for atoms
- 5. an element that combines with oxygen to form water
- 7. the meaning of the Greek word atomos
- 9. a substance made when two or more elements react to form something new
- 10. an element that combines with hydrogen to make water or with iron to make rust
- 11. when elements combine or separate to form new substances
- 13. a pure substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances
- 15. the fundamental building block of chemistry