Across
- 4. What is a measur of the amount of water vapor that air is holdind compared to the amount needed for saturation at a specific temperature called?
- 7. What is the fifth step of the scientific method?
- 8. What is a vast, underwater mountain chain called?
- 10. What are the 3 things that distinguish atmospheric layers?
- 11. What is the sixth step of the scientific method?
- 15. What is the process of liquid changing to a gas at the surface of the liquid called?
- 16. What is the layer in the atmosphere that is nearest to Earth's surface?
- 19. Most of the freshwater on Earth is found where?
- 20. Water freezes at what degrees C?
- 21. What water evaporates from oceans and lakes and rises into Earth's atmosphere?
- 23. What is used to measure temperature?
- 24. What are the 3 things needed for photosynthesis?
- 25. What is the point in Earth's interior where the energy release of an earthquake occurs called?
- 26. A scientific law describes a what?
- 27. What are the 3 ways the movement of 2 blocks of rock along a fault causes an earthquake to occur?
- 28. What is the fourth step of the scientific method?
Down
- 1. What is the hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called what?
- 2. What is the process that takes rock to the inside of Earth?
- 3. What is the third step of the scientific method?
- 5. When a scientist has tested her hypothesis, the next step in scientific inquiry is to what?
- 6. What is the boundary between cold and warm air masses called?
- 9. What is the layer in the atmosphere that has the highest concentration of ozone?
- 12. What is the seventh/last step of the scientific method?
- 13. Areas of what usually have cloudy weather?
- 14. What is the first step of the scientific method?
- 17. What are the first waves to reach a seismograph after an earthquake called?
- 18. What is the second step of the scientific method?
- 22. What are plates that move apart called?