Terminology Time!

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Tool for weighing things; also a set of musical notes (5)
  2. 6. The angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich (9)
  3. 8. The ratio of ___ in an area to the population of that area (9)
  4. 9. The ratio of live ___ in an area to the population of that area (9)
  5. 11. Unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice (14)
  6. 13. A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events (6)
  7. 14. An imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north (7)
  8. 15. Migration from a place (10)
  9. 16. The natural world around us (11)

Down

  1. 1. All the plant life in a particular region or period (10)
  2. 3. The extended spatial location of something (6)
  3. 4. An imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator (8)
  4. 5. Undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as (9)
  5. 7. The commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer (12)
  6. 10. Migration into a place (11)
  7. 12. A periodic count of the population (6)