NCFE Review - 6th grade

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Across
  1. 6. - substance slows the transfer of heat
  2. 8. - a drawing showing how energy moves from one organism to another
  3. 11. - living things
  4. 15. - things that prevent a population from growing any larger
  5. 16. - female part of the flower
  6. 20. - the colored muscle in your eye that causes the pupil to expand or contract
  7. 21. - a method of plowing furrows that follow the curves of the land rather than straight up and down slopes.
  8. 22. - process in which plants produce food (glucose) in their leaves
  9. 24. - fault in which tension forces pull apart 2 plates
  10. 27. - male part of the flower (creates pollen)
  11. 28. - ______ waves are waves of light and energy that can travel trough space
  12. 30. - a plant's hormonal response to its environment (gravity, touch, light, water)
  13. 32. - solid core composed of iron and nickel
  14. 34. - the movement of heat without a medium
  15. 35. - this telescope is responsible for almost all images we have of objects in space (it orbits Earth)
  16. 36. - this moves from a warmer object to a cooler object until they both reach equilibrium or an equal temperature
  17. 37. - mass divided by volume (this is a property of an element that doesn't change)
  18. 38. - waves that move at right angles (up and down) as they travel (electromagnetic waves, secondary waves, surface waves)
Down
  1. 1. - growing different types of crops during different growing seasons
  2. 2. - the bending of sound waves
  3. 3. - how much of a substance (solute) can be dissolved in another (solvent)
  4. 4. - ____ waves are EM waves that have longer wavelengths (and move slower) than visible light
  5. 5. - waves that "push through" a medium in all directions (sound, primary waves)
  6. 7. - the temperature in which a substance changes state from liquid to gas
  7. 9. - the bending of light or EM waves
  8. 10. - ____ waves are EM waves that have shorter wavelengths (and move faster) than visible light
  9. 12. - forming of crystals within rock or a solution
  10. 13. - non-living things
  11. 14. - the smallest component of an element (contains protons, neutrons and electrons)
  12. 17. - Your eye interprets the different wavelengths of visible light as different _______.
  13. 18. - a soil conservation method in which the dead stalks from the previous year's crop are left in the ground to hold the soil in place.
  14. 19. -_____ energy is energy stored BEFORE an object moves
  15. 23. - ___ rocks are composed of sediment pressed together
  16. 25. - the crust and upper mantle
  17. 26. - organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms
  18. 29. - eclipse in which a the Earth blocks sunlight from reaching a full moon (moon appears red)
  19. 31. - liquid portion of the earth composed of iron and nickel
  20. 33. distance from crest to crest or trough to trough