Tracing our Ancestors

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave (6)
  2. 5. The end of life (5)
  3. 7. A tract of land used for burials (8)
  4. 8. A periodic count of the population (6)
  5. 11. The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money (10)
  6. 12. Equally distant from the extremes (7)
  7. 13. The resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another (7)
  8. 16. The time that has elapsed (4)

Down

  1. 2. A man-made object taken as a whole (plural) (9)
  2. 3. A slight indication (plural) (5)
  3. 4. Someone from whom you are descended (plural) (9)
  4. 6. Study of what happened in the past (7)
  5. 9. Something that happens at a given place and time (plural) (6)
  6. 10. Writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing (6)
  7. 14. The event of being born (5)
  8. 15. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (plural) (4)