Science Words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A ceremonial dinner party for many people (5)
  2. 4. The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the ___ of (6)
  3. 6. How much matter something contains (4)
  4. 7. Any period of seven consecutive days (4)
  5. 9. A time unit of approximately 30 days (5)
  6. 11. A small amount of liquid food (7)
  7. 12. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram (4)
  8. 13. Someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport (5)
  9. 14. A state of difficulty that needs to be resolved (plural) (8)
  10. 16. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound (5)

Down

  1. 2. Tool for weighing things; also a set of musical notes (5)
  2. 3. Small air-breathing arthropod (plural) (7)
  3. 5. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair (6)
  4. 8. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal (7)
  5. 10. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day (4)
  6. 15. The basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (5)