Myscience

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. The pivot about which a lever turns (7)
  2. 4. Country in Asia with the Taj Mahal (5)
  3. 8. A republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands (9)
  4. 9. Small air-breathing arthropod (6)
  5. 10. Canine tooth of a carnivorous animal (plural) (5)
  6. 12. A crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other (5)

Down

  1. 1. A highly developed state of perfection (6)
  2. 2. To keep or maintain in unaltered condition (8)
  3. 3. Air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs (8)
  4. 5. A component of a mixture that has been separated by a ___ process (8)
  5. 6. A push or a pull (5)
  6. 7. Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (plural) (5)
  7. 11. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction (plural) (5)