DKfindout! Energy: Criss Cross

Answer clues based on the content and vocabulary words from DKfindout! Energy by Emily Dodd. Look for hints in the Word Bank. Print the puzzle or use it on your tablet, phone, or computer.

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Across

  • 2. Tiny particles that everything is made from
  • 5. What makes things happen
  • 7. Part of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans can see
  • 8. Energy stored inside chemicals in their bonds, which can be released or produced in a chemical reaction
  • 9. Energy that tiny particles called electrons carry as they flow in an electrical current
  • 11. Energy released when the nuclei at the center of atoms break apart or join together
  • 13. Substance that does not allow heat or electricity to pass easily through it
  • 14. Fuels made from animals and plants that died millions of years ago

Down

  • 1. Type of energy that warms things
  • 3. Energy of a magnetic field
  • 4. Movement energy
  • 6. Energy stored in things, ready to be used to do something
  • 10. Substance that allows heat or electricity to pass through it easily
  • 12. Sources of energy other than fossil fuels, that are used to generate electricity

Word Bank

atoms
chemical
conductor
energy
electrical
fossil
heat
insulator
kinetic
light
magnetic
nuclear
potential
renewable