How Do Scientists Measure Things?

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. An individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional (4)
  2. 5. A rule one ___ long (10)
  3. 7. Staying steady without falling over (7)
  4. 8. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram (4)
  5. 9. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal (7)
  6. 11. Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (7)
  7. 14. How hot or cold something is (11)
  8. 15. How much matter something contains (4)
  9. 16. A metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under (5)

Down

  1. 1. The linear extent in space from one end to the other (6)
  2. 3. A short performance that is part of a longer program (6)
  3. 4. How loud something is, or how much space it fills (6)
  4. 6. Measuring instrument for measuring temperature (11)
  5. 10. The basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (5)
  6. 12. The vast area beyond Earth's atmosphere (5)
  7. 13. The outermost level of the land or sea (7)