Temperature

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 6. How hot or cold something is (11)
  2. 8. The state of being combined into one body (6)
  3. 11. The basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (6)
  4. 12. The temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid (13)
  5. 13. Force pushing on something (8)
  6. 14. A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 1. A unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through (5)
  2. 2. German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature (10)
  3. 3. The process of becoming warmer (7)
  4. 4. Measuring instrument for measuring temperature (11)
  5. 5. Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (7)
  6. 7. The process of becoming cooler (7)
  7. 9. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (plural) (8)
  8. 10. The smallest planet and the nearest to the sun (7)