Aisha Lansangan Global Interdependence: Science and Technology Transform Life Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. The space shuttle program ended on July 21, 2011, when this shuttle landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  2. 6. A worldwide network of linked computers known as the
  3. 9. Surgeons rarely performed operations on sensitive areas such as this organ or the brain.
  4. 10. Agricultural scientists around the world started this campaign in an attempt to increase food production worldwide
  5. 11. NASA made history when New Horizons, a U.S. space probe, flew by this planet and one of its moons.
  6. 12. The crew of this mission were the first international crew into space.
  7. 15. The Russian Space Station
  8. 17. United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  9. 18. The internet enables these groups to influence one another more easily and rapidly than ever before.
  10. 19. This country has the has the highest percentage of Internet users
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  1. 1. Liquid water exists on this planet under certain conditions.
  2. 3. Commonly known as a "chip", they are found in the majority of electrical devices like cars, smartphones, and tablets.
  3. 4. The race between the United States and the Soviet Union to explore space
  4. 5. U.S. space shuttle program began in 1981 with the launch of this space shuttle
  5. 7. The first electronic computer was built by this person and John Mauchly as a way to calculate firing tables during World War II.
  6. 8. These are hereditary units that cause specific traits, like eye color, in every living organism.
  7. 13. Delivered Tranquility, one of the last pieces of the space station.
  8. 14. This technology has become essential in many industries, and millions of people around the globe have them in their homes.
  9. 16. This is the creation of identical copies of DNA, the chemical chains of genes that determine heredity.
  10. 20. The acronym for the project that came together in 1993 when the United States and Russia agreed to merge their individual space station programs.