Fabulous Science Vocabulary

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. The number of significant figures given in a number (8)
  2. 4. The distance between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave (10)
  3. 6. Having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci (10)
  4. 9. The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to (11)
  5. 11. The relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent (9)
  6. 12. The quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time (13)
  7. 14. One of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (4)
  8. 15. A push or a pull (5)
  9. 16. The distance that ___ travels in a vacuum in 1 ___ (9)

Down

  1. 2. Present in great quantity (8)
  2. 3. The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element (4)
  3. 5. A stable situation in which forces cancel one another (11)
  4. 7. A proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations (10)
  5. 8. A substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (7)
  6. 10. That which has mass and occupies space (6)
  7. 13. The tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by (7)