For physical science teachers & students, here is a women
in astronomy brain-teaser. Try your hand at this science crossword puzzle.
ACROSS CLUES
1. The priestess/astronomer's job was to predict this. 
7. A "mare"
on the moon.
9. Alcholics' Anonymous 10. Baked bread (plural) 11. Student Physics
Society (abbr.)
12. Least restricted environment (abbr.) 13. Native Am. women
used full _____ to time childbirth.
15. Chemical symbol for sodium 16. The Beaver's brother (mis-spelled)
18. Demeter and her daughter Persephone were __ seasonal __ __ __ . 19. "old" in German.
21. Milli liter (abbr.) 22. Al Gore's home state. 23. Blood factors
in babies.
25. Australian tree dweller (pl.) 28. to disown 30. A new moon
looks ___ ___ ___ ___ .
32. Chemical symbol for a gas that creates light pollution. 33. to have (past
tense).
35. Gidget star in the 60's: Sandra _______. 36. Trolls. 37. Found inside a pyramid.
39. Color of lunar eclipse. 40. Pleiades Constellation: the
seven _____________.
DOWN CLUES
1. Ancient temples face ___________, the place of sunrise during the
spring equinox.
3. Illustration (abbr.)4. Game on horseback.5. lunar cycle
used by wisewomen to predict eclipses.
6. 2, 4, 6, 8, etc. 8. The first woman astronomer in recorded history
from Thessaly, Greece.
13. The pillar which holds up the sky: _________ Way.14. Vegetarian
dish.
15. Egyptian Sky Goddess17. Postal code: Louisiana20. Towards.21. Roman numerals for 1050 24. A circular mound or circle of stones
used for astronomy. 26. Am. botantist, ____ Gray, 1810-1888.
27. Melancholy you (2 words)29. Geek, techie. 31. Regarding
bromine (abbr)
33. Sound of temple snake34. Space Transportation System (abbr)36. State north of California
38. Opportunity Transfer (abbr).
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