Science and Technology Words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Everything that exists anywhere (8)
  2. 4. German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature (10)
  3. 8. The simplest structural unit of an element or compound (plural) (9)
  4. 9. Partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major (14)
  5. 11. A scientist who studies living organisms (9)
  6. 14. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect (5)
  7. 15. Layer of air around the Earth (10)

Down

  1. 1. The act of conducting a controlled test or investigation (plural) (11)
  2. 3. A person with advanced knowledge of one or more ___ (plural) (10)
  3. 5. Relating to or concerned with ___ (10)
  4. 6. The means whereby some act is accomplished (plural) (11)
  5. 7. Based in scientific and industrial progress (13)
  6. 10. A physicist who studies ___ (10)
  7. 12. A device that lets divers breathe under water (5)
  8. 13. An acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (5)
  9. 16. A measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms (5)