Science Review

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A seamount of volcanic origin (5)
  2. 4. A showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal (5)
  3. 6. Underground ___ that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks (11)
  4. 7. The process of becoming a vapor (11)
  5. 11. The quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time (13)
  6. 12. An underwater mountain rising above the ocean floor (8)
  7. 13. A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth (6)
  8. 14. A narrow depression (6)

Down

  1. 1. The process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state (12)
  2. 3. A flow of electricity through a conductor (7)
  3. 5. The distance between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave (10)
  4. 8. Underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc (7)
  5. 9. A slowly moving mass of ice (7)
  6. 10. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)