Y12 Aspire

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Across
  1. 4. Period of rapid scientific and cultural progress in Europe
  2. 7. Chemical symbol for gold
  3. 8. UN agency for education, science, and culture
  4. 10. Prize awarded for major achievements in science and peace
  5. 11. Process plants use to convert light into energy
  6. 12. Inventor associated with alternating current
  7. 14. Book of maps
  8. 15. World’s largest hot desert
  9. 16. Naturalist who proposed evolution by natural selection
  10. 17. Unit of electrical resistance
  11. 19. Layer protecting Earth from ultraviolet radiation
  12. 20. Continent containing over 40 countries
  13. 21. The “Red Planet”
  14. 23. Branch of mathematics dealing with change
Down
  1. 1. Astronomer tried by the Inquisition
  2. 2. Basic SI unit of force
  3. 3. City that is the seat of government in most countries
  4. 5. Smallest unit of ordinary matter
  5. 6. Marie’s surname
  6. 9. Greek philosopher who taught Aristotle
  7. 13. Earth’s largest ocean
  8. 17. England’s oldest university
  9. 18. Study of earthquakes
  10. 22. Author of 1984