The Ocean Planet

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. How loud something is, or how much space it fills (6)
  2. 4. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded (plural) (5)
  3. 5. A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power (11)
  4. 8. An increase in the density of something (11)
  5. 10. Imparting vitality and energy (5)
  6. 11. The fatty flesh of eel (plural) (4)
  7. 14. Cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface (8)
  8. 15. The taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth (8)
  9. 16. Absence of light or illumination (8)

Down

  1. 1. A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth (6)
  2. 3. The act of increasing in size or volume or quantity or scope (9)
  3. 6. How hot or cold something is (11)
  4. 7. How much matter something contains (4)
  5. 9. Force that pulls objects toward the Earth (7)
  6. 12. How tightly packed the matter in something is (7)
  7. 13. Force pushing on something (8)