Science Missing Letters
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
a
i
Any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red
2.
b
e
Bottom part something stands on; a safe spot in baseball
3.
c
r
n
d
i
e
A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic
4.
o
y
n
Gas in the air that we need to breathe
5.
b
b
l
A hollow globule of gas (plural)
6.
s
a
Used with water to wash
7.
v
e
g
Sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as
8.
b
g
s
d
a
A white soluble compound used in effervescent drinks and in ___ powders and as an antacid
9.
d
t
r
e
A surface-active chemical widely used in industry and laundering
10.
r
t
The usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes (plural)
11.
s
t
A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
12.
f
e
r
Colorful blooms that grow on plants
13.
w
e
Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain
14.
a
a
l
Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid
15.
f
i
An effervescent beverage
16.
r
a
o
n
A process in which one or more substances are changed into others
17.
a
s
o
To take in, also metaphorically
18.
l
i
s
State of matter that flows like water (plural)
19.
s
d
s
State of matter with a fixed shape (plural)
20.
m
o
e
e
The simplest structural unit of an element or compound (plural)