The Language of Comparison

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 6. An animal that produces gametes that can be fertilized by male gametes (6)
  2. 7. An animal that produces gametes that can fertilize female gametes (4)
  3. 8. Highest in quality (8)
  4. 9. To double the degree (5)
  5. 11. The ability to read and write (8)
  6. 13. Undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as (9)
  7. 15. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area (5)

Down

  1. 1. Being the exact same one (9)
  2. 2. One of two equal parts of a divisible whole (4)
  3. 3. A quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree (4)
  4. 4. Of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city (5)
  5. 5. A district of a city having some distinguishing character (7)
  6. 7. English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned (4)
  7. 10. A politically organized body of people under a single government (7)
  8. 12. A great amount or extent (4)
  9. 14. The language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula (4)