Zinc Crossword

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. An abstract part of something (7)
  2. 6. Any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity (5)
  3. 7. Keeping someone or something safe from harm. (10)
  4. 9. In good shape and not sick (7)
  5. 11. An alloy of copper and zinc (5)
  6. 12. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element (4)
  7. 14. The process of an individual organism growing organically (6)
  8. 15. The food and drink a person usually has (4)

Down

  1. 1. A cream spread on the skin (9)
  2. 2. A fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom (5)
  3. 3. Tiniest unit of living things (4)
  4. 4. Any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism (plural) (8)
  5. 6. Solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition (plural) (8)
  6. 8. Marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell (plural) (7)
  7. 10. The natural process by which the body repairs itself (7)
  8. 13. An alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon (5)