Across
- 3. Occurs when light bends as it passes through a new medium
- 6. Law that explains that older layers are found deeper in the Earth than younger layers if they are undisturbed
- 10. Any factor that can change in an experiment
- 11. Plate boundary responsible for the formation of mountains
- 13. A description of what happens in nature under very specific conditions
- 17. This is what happens to light that allows us to see the color black
- 18. Creates sediment when rock is broken into little pieces
- 21. Type of heat transfer in which cold, dense fluid sinks and warm, less dense fluids rise
- 22. The distance between crests of a transverse wave
- 25. Type of rock that forms when magma cools and hardens
- 26. Process that moves sediment
Down
- 1. Occurs when light bounces back off of an object like a mirror
- 2. Lake that forms when deposition cuts off part of a meandering river
- 4. Type of dating that uses isotopes to get a more accurate age of fossils or Earth materials
- 5. Heat transfer that requires contact
- 7. Stored energy
- 8. An explanation of how or why something occurs in nature
- 9. Composed of the crust and upper mantle
- 12. Plate boundary responsible for the creation of new ocean floor
- 14. Energy of motion
- 15. A scientist does another scientist's experiment to see if they get the same results
- 16. Variable that is graphed on the Y-axis of a bar or line graph
- 19. The same scientist does an experiment multiple times
- 20. Plate boundary where earthquakes are most common
- 23. The variable that the scientist changes, AKA manipulated or independent variable
- 24. Made of iron and nickel