Matter

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 6. State of matter that fills any space, like air (3)
  2. 7. State of matter that flows like water (6)
  3. 8. A push or a pull (5)
  4. 11. Capable of being dissolved in some solvent (7)
  5. 12. German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature (10)
  6. 14. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram (plural) (5)
  7. 16. That which has mass and occupies space (6)

Down

  1. 1. The act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents (10)
  2. 2. Frozen water (3)
  3. 3. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object (8)
  4. 4. The real physical matter of which a person or thing consists (9)
  5. 5. The application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas (7)
  6. 9. How tightly packed the matter in something is (7)
  7. 10. The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity (6)
  8. 13. How much matter something contains (4)
  9. 15. Any spatial attributes (5)