Measuring Time Crossword

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  1. 3. This unit of time is ten years
  2. 4. This is the old way of marking years before the year 1, and was based on Christianity
  3. 6. A unit of time that measures 24 hours
  4. 9. This is the most common unit of time measurement. Each day has 24 of these, and one year has 8760!
  5. 10. This is a phrase that means “before we were recording history”
  6. 12. This is a unit of time that measures 1000 years
  7. 13. This is one of the smallest units of time. There are 60 in one minute.
  8. 14. There are usually 4 of these in a month, but there are always 52 of these in one year
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  1. 1. This means “year of the Lord” and is the older way of marking time for the year 1 and after.
  2. 2. This unit of time has 365.25 days or 52 weeks
  3. 4. This is how we currently identify history before the year 1 and replaced B.C. because it was based in Christianity
  4. 5. This unit of time is 1/10th of a millennium, or has 100 years, or 10 decades
  5. 7. This is a phrase that means “Goes on forever”
  6. 8. This replaced A.D. as a means of marking time after the year 1
  7. 11. There are 12 of these in a year, and most have 30 or 31 days
  8. 12. A small unit of time, each of these have 60 seconds, and there are 60 of them in one hour