Year 8 Science

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. An elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton (7)
  2. 4. Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid (6)
  3. 5. Happening or recurring at regular intervals (8)
  4. 8. Any of five related nonmetallic elements that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions (plural) (8)
  5. 9. To cause to repeat a cycle (8)
  6. 11. The act of passing from one state or place to the next (10)
  7. 14. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet" (5)
  8. 15. A dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force (6)
  9. 16. Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites (8)

Down

  1. 1. A star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process (9)
  2. 3. An elementary particle with negative charge (8)
  3. 6. Center of an atom or a cell (7)
  4. 7. One of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games (plural) (7)
  5. 10. Any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era (8)
  6. 12. An arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line (plural) (4)
  7. 13. The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element (4)