The Stone Age

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust (5)
  2. 5. A long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon (5)
  3. 6. A hard kind of stone (5)
  4. 7. A structure that provides privacy and protection from danger (7)
  5. 8. Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates (4)
  6. 9. A long wooden bench with a back (6)
  7. 10. Plant foods like carrots and broccoli (10)
  8. 12. Someone whose occupation is catching fish (9)
  9. 14. Sweet food that grows on plants (5)

Down

  1. 1. A person who operates a farm (6)
  2. 2. A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch (4)
  3. 3. A group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession (9)
  4. 4. The earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of ___ implements (8)
  5. 7. Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a ___ (9)
  6. 11. A geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of (4)
  7. 13. An antiquity that has survived from the distant past (5)