Forces and Motion Crossword

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. How much matter something contains (4)
  2. 3. Enterprising or ambitious drive (4)
  3. 7. A process in which one or more substances are changed into others (8)
  4. 9. The force used in ___ (4)
  5. 11. A change of position that does not entail a change of location (8)
  6. 13. Force that pulls objects toward the Earth (7)
  7. 14. An increase in rate of change (12)
  8. 15. The tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by (7)

Down

  1. 2. The state of being active (6)
  2. 4. To throw out of balance or equilibrium (10)
  3. 5. Any agent that carries and transmits a disease (6)
  4. 6. A general course along which something has a tendency to develop (9)
  5. 8. English mathematician and physicist (6)
  6. 10. A brief event in which two or more bodies come together (9)
  7. 12. The resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another (8)
  8. 13. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars (7)