Words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A strong feeling of care and affection (4)
  2. 5. Food for domestic livestock (4)
  3. 6. How fast something moves (5)
  4. 8. Yielding readily to pressure or weight (4)
  5. 11. Living things like trees and flowers that grow in soil (6)
  6. 13. Excavation in the earth from which ores and ___ are extracted (4)
  7. 14. Occupied or in the control of (4)
  8. 15. The state or fact of existing (5)

Down

  1. 1. A condition requiring relief (4)
  2. 3. A body of students who are taught together (5)
  3. 4. A space reserved for sitting (4)
  4. 7. A material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses (5)
  5. 9. A shallow box in which seedlings are started (4)
  6. 10. A statute in draft before it becomes law (4)
  7. 12. Possessing life (5)