Across
- 4. Known as the control center
- 5. Contained small amount of dissolved gases
- 7. A hydrogen atom does not contain this in its nucleus
- 8. Discovered by Ernest Rutherford
- 10. Form between adjacent water molecules (two words)
- 12. Water molecules, flashlight batteries, and bar Magnets
- 13. How heavy something is for its size
- 14. Industrial chemicals that can cause liver cancer (acronym)
- 15. Vital for all life forms
- 16. Their molecules spread to fill a space
- 19. Helps water to interact with various compounds
- 20. Create ecological and economic damage (two words)
- 25. pollution entering the ocean from multiple sources (two words)
- 27. Basic building blocks of matter
- 30. Use is impractical except on a small scale (two words)
- 31. Act to moderate changes in temperature (two words)
- 34. Important for the bonding of individual atoms
- 36. Banned in 1971 (acronym)
- 37. Smallest particle always in motion
- 39. stored energy within an object (two words)
- 42. Another way to obtain freshwater (two words)
- 44. Also known as water (two words)
- 47. Studies indicate this can have unwanted environmental effects (two words)
- 48. Electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged ions (two words)
- 49. Requires a large amount of energy to desalinate seawater
- 52. A toxic brew of human waste, pesticides and other chemicals (two words)
- 53. Used to destroy or repel insects or organisms
- 54. Cause water to “bead up”
Down
- 1. Forms an organic compound that is toxic
- 2. Water can do this to nearly everything
- 3. Invaded the Great Lakes region (two words)
- 6. A positive or negative charge particle
- 8. process by which plastic is broken down into smaller pieces
- 9. Heat energy required to raise the temperature of a substance 1 degree (two words)
- 10. Water molecules surrounded by ions
- 11. Flows and can change its shape
- 17. Named after a Dutch physicist (four words)
- 18. Membranes become clogged (two words)
- 21. Occurs naturally in seawater (two words)
- 22. Relatively high energy is required to break them (two words)
- 23. Used to directly compare the heat capacity of a substances (two words)
- 24. Use the Sun’s energy to evaporate seawater (two words)
- 26. Are directly tied to some of water’s thermal properties
- 28. Temperature at which a liquid turn into a solid (two words)
- 29. These spills can be collected with specially design skimmers
- 32. Somewhat responsible for the development of tropical cyclones (two words)
- 33. It changes when heat is added or removed
- 35. Energy of motion (two words)
- 37. Causes blindness, brain damage, birth defects, etc… (two words)
- 38. Temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid (two words)
- 40. Any harmful substance
- 41. Very efficient at purifying seawater (two words)
- 43. The vast majority of marine debris
- 45. Water has the highest of this (two words)
- 46. Steam release a large amount of this when it condenses to a liquid (two words)
- 49. Spread out in every direction
- 50. Retains its shape and density
- 51. Changes the state of matter