Name It!

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy (7)
  2. 3. The science of matter (9)
  3. 6. A common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas (8)
  4. 7. A nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic (8)
  5. 9. A chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change on being heated or struck (9)
  6. 10. Center of an atom or a cell (7)
  7. 11. A viscous liquid with strong oxidizing properties (8)
  8. 12. Strength or the ability to control things (5)

Down

  1. 2. Substance used in or made by chemistry (plural) (9)
  2. 4. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)
  3. 5. The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element (plural) (5)
  4. 8. An elementary particle with negative charge (8)
  5. 10. An elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton (7)
  6. 11. A stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron (6)