About China

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch (8)
  2. 9. Thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper (plural) (14)
  3. 10. The commercial exchange of goods and services (5)
  4. 12. A native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China (7)
  5. 13. An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (plural) (10)
  6. 15. A fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae (4)
  7. 16. The imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 (4)

Down

  1. 1. A major ___ of Asia in northern China (11)
  2. 2. Small white grains grown in wet fields (4)
  3. 4. A group's customs, art and way of life (7)
  4. 5. Formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province (8)
  5. 6. A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC (9)
  6. 7. A light midafternoon meal of ___ and sandwiches or cakes (3)
  7. 8. A material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses (5)
  8. 11. Shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin (8)
  9. 14. A permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state (4)