Grade 6, Chapter 10 Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. - noun a graphic character used in ideography
  2. 6. are a type of artifact found in archaeological sites in several parts of the world, but they are best known as a significant characteristic of the Shang dynasty. They were used to practice a specific form of divination, fortune-telling, known as pyro-osteomancy. Osteomancy is when shamans (religious specialists) divine the future from the pattern of the natural bumps, cracks, and discolorations in animal bone and turtle shell.
  3. 8. - noun a highly mobile army unit; troops trained to fight on horseback
  4. 11. - noun a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
  5. 13. established the idea that a ruler must be just to keep the approval of the gods. It was believed that natural disasters, famines, and astrological signs were signals that the emperor and the dynasty were losing the _______________________________.
  6. 14. - noun (physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions; (Greek mythology) the most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe; the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos; a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  7. 17. - noun (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops; socialization through training and education; a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
  8. 18. - noun extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)
Down
  1. 1. - have the skills and qualifications to do things well
  2. 2. - noun supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak
  3. 3. - noun a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; a television station and its programs; a path over which electrical signals can pass; (often plural) a means of communication or access; a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels; a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors; a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record); verb direct the flow of; send from one person or place to another; transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
  4. 4. - noun a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
  5. 7. - noun emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it; a gradual depletion of energy or resources; a pipe through which liquid is carried away; tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material; verb empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; deplete of resources; flow off gradually; make weak
  6. 9. - adj. broken away from sameness or identity or duplication; widely different; characterized by variety
  7. 10. - verb march in protest; take part in a demonstration; establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes; show or demonstrate something to an interested audience
  8. 12. - noun a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind
  9. 15. - adj. paying tribute; of a stream; flowing into a larger stream; tending to bring about; being partly responsible for; noun a branch that flows into the main stream
  10. 16. - verb make sense of; assign a meaning to; give an interpretation or rendition of; make sense of a language; give an interpretation or explanation to; restate (words) from one language into another language; create an image or likeness of