8th Grade Science Vocabulary Ch. 1- Ch. 4

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Across
  1. 1. is a personal and often unreasoned judgment for or against one side in a dispute (prejudice)
  2. 3. a flatland that has been raised in elevation
  3. 6. stress of pushing landmasses together
  4. 8. Man's best friend
  5. 10. slowest seismic wave causes the most damage
  6. 12. fault where the hanging wall slides down
  7. 13. Flying mammal
  8. 14. Likes to chase mice
  9. 17. fault where the hanging wall moves upward above the footwall
  10. 19. amount of space an object takes up (ml or m2)
  11. 20. fastest seismic wave (compressional)
  12. 21. can change when the gravitational pull changes (N)
Down
  1. 2. the stress of landmasses sliding past one another
  2. 4. the shaking of the earth directly above the focus
  3. 5. another name for an average of numbers
  4. 7. the point in the earth where the rocks are broken due to stress
  5. 9. amount of mass per unit volume
  6. 11. violent shaking of the earth caused by reducing stress on the earth
  7. 15. amount of matter in an object (kg)
  8. 16. stress of pulling landmasses apart
  9. 18. a conclusion from facts or premises (what happened)
  10. 20. telling what may happen in the future