Hard Crossword Puzzles

Hard Crosswords

These crosswords are intended to be pretty hard to complete. They are made up of more than 20 words of any size. To view or print a hard crossword puzzle click on its title.

Title	Subject	Instructions / Description	Sample Puzzle Hints
Early Childhood	Society		Short sessions, praise & rewards are examples of ______ to consider. Examples of this development parenting styles, divorce, caregivers. Parenting Style- high demands and low responsiveness. Continued refinement of fine & gross motor skills. Explores through play.
Early Childhood	Society		This stage is when children have a fear of pain.. This refers to child care outside the home.. This has been shown to influence visible skills, such as hand-eye coordination, as well as skills that are harder to detect, such as a child's ability to focus attention.. This is how children attempt to learn the responsibilities of family members and others in society.. Children's attribution of the cause of illness to the consequences of their own transgressions..
Early Christian and Byzantine Design	History		where general assembly would congregate.. Required a large pool of water for emersion.. Continuous walkway around the apse.. A roof supported by columns to form a covering for an important object.. Holy place separate from the nave.
Early Christian Ireland	World Geography		Fine example of an illuminated manuscript. A scribe's pen. Dining room for the monks. Where St. Muireadach's cross can still be seen today. Fine example of the craft of meta working found at the National Museum today.
Early European Colonies	European History		widespread illness. French settler in Canada. Helper of the sick and poor, member of the Sister's of Charity. Representative of the king. Pope's faith.
Early Explorers	History		Explored the Caribbean and Panama. Soldier-Adventurers. Aztec capital. Portugese explorer who was looking for a Atlantic-Pacific passage. One of Columbus's ships.
Early Humans	Science		Ancient people used this to help them perform tasks.. Paleolithic people __________ and gathered food.. Ancient man found frozen in the Alps.. Crushed yellow, black, and red rocks into powders for this. Present day country where the city of Catal Huyuk is located..
Early Humans and Civilizations	History		a system of writing with wedge shaped symbols invented by the Sumerians. a name for a creature that walks upright. to find the age of something based on the number of half lives the carbon had . to tame animals for human use . remains from any living thing from a former geological age.
Early India	Asian History		seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons.. the effects that good or bad actions have on a person'ssoul.. the most important language of Ancient India.. going without food for a long time.. based on the teaching of a man called Mahavira, who is believed to have been born around 599BC.
Early Native Americans in North America	History		Was a ceremony of the people of the Northwest, at which the hosts showered their guest with gifts. This region is home to the Iroquois. In the Iroquois Nations, women had a great influence and owned all the property that belonged to a clan. In this region, Native Americans lived in desert houses made out of adobe. Tribal chief under the Iroquois. Ways of life.
Early River Valley Civilizations	History		first recorded Chinese dynasty. took control in China under the 'Mandate of Heaven'. political system in which nobles are granted use of lands that legally belong the king. seasonal winds & storms that affect Southeast Asia. a king of the Babylonian Empire, famous for his code of laws.
Early Virginia	US History		Virginia __________ responded to boston rioters being transported to London for trial by condemning measure, governor dissolving body, meeting at Raliegh Tavern(3 words). _________ was related to Governor Berkley's wife. was part of Senen Years War(4 words). seized gunpowder in Williamsburg (2 words). Virginia believed in _____representation.
Early Years of the Republic	History		start of Lewis and Clark expedition. president during war of 1812. 1807-hurt American economy. Washington request money to build a navy. Monroe doctrine stated “keep out of the_____.”.
Earth	Earth Sciences		ash. the molten, fluid, rockthat issues from a volcano . lithosphere is broken into a number of crustal plates. the central intermost part of the earth. the movement of contintns resulting resuming from the motion of crustal plates.
Earth and Moon	Astronomy	complete the crossword by filling in the correct answers.	____ ______ happens inside the Sun. When ____ solidified, it was dark and flat. An ______ is a day when Earth’s rotation axis is leaning along Earth’s orbit,. The line on which an object rotates is the _____ _____. ______ motion of Earth causes day and night.
Earth and Space	Science		is formed when existing rock is heated at high pressures and temperatures. the average of weather conditions over a long period of time. an opening in the Earth's crust from which steam, lava, and ashes erupt.. the shaking of the Earth's surface caused by the release of energy along a fault. one full orbit of an object around another object.
Earth EnvironmentalVocabulary	Spelling Lists		Energy derived from the heat in the interior of the earth. . Use more than once. . Energy-saving light.. A cell that converts solar energy into electrical energy.. A single identifiable localized source of air, water, thermal, noise or light pollution..
Earth History	Earth Sciences		Remains of species that existed on earth for a relatively short period of time; can be used by geologist to assign the ages of rock layers. A method of dating bones. If rocks are undisturbed, the older layers of rock are under the younger layers of rock. Remains, imprints, or traces of prehistoric organisms. Method useed to determine the absolute age of a rock by measuring the amounts of parent and daughter materials in a rock.
Earth Layers	Geology		The transfer of heat to the surface of the earth from the inner core, causing the tectonic plates to shift. The hard, broken layer of the mantle that carries all the continents and sits on the asthenosphere. Density gets higher the farther into the earth. The soft layer of the mantle that the Lithosphere rests on, convection currents run through it. The outermost layer of the earth that we stand on.
Earth Layers	Earth Sciences		The transfer of heat to the surface of the earth from the inner core. A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving toward each other. A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other. composed mostly in Earth’s interior. center of the earth.
Earth Science	Geology		magma the comes above the earths surface. a large crack in the earths surface. the way a rock or mineral breaks . a flat topped underwater peak. scientific theory that attemps to explain continental drift .
Earth Science	Geology		Major geological events that occur when plates shift suddenly and release stored energy; a frequent occurrence at transform boundaries. The cool, rigid, outermost layer of Earth consists of the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle. ovement of plates create dense oceanic crust that sinks lower in the asthenosphere than the less dense continental crust, resulting in depressions on Earth's surface that fill with water. an upper layer of the mantle that causes movement of the lithosphere because of its plasticity. The thin solid outermost layer of Earth; made of less dense silicates.
Earth Sciences	Geology	Earthquake & Plate Tectonics	shakes particles. where an earthquake starts. deformed rocks reaction. where the movement has occured. driven by convection currents in the mantle.
Earth's Ecosystems	Science		a living thing that makes it own food. the path of the Sun's energy from one living thing to another. a place where living and nonliving things interact. water that falls to earth. an animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals.
Earth's Energy and Atmoshere	Science		an instument used to measure changes in air pressure. mixture of gaseous elements and compounds. water falling from clouds in form of rain, snow, sleet or ice. conditions in the atmosphere, including humidity, could cover, temperature, wind and precipitation. an instrument used to measure wind speed.
Earth's History	History		The fossil remains of an organism that lived in a particular geologic age, used to identify or date the rock or rock layer in which it is found. Also called guide fossil.. A general law stating that in any sequence of sediments or rocks that has not been overturned, the youngest sediments or rocks are at the top of the sequence and the oldest are at the bottom.. the shortest division of geological time. a space of time between two events or a portion of time.. any method of dating material based on the decay of its constituent radioactive atoms, such as potassium-argon dating or rubidium-strontium dating Also called radioactive dating.
Earth's Landforms	Earth Sciences		deepest parts of the ocean floor. a deep valley with high, steep sides. a map that uses shading to show elevations. a wide, flat area. an underwater mountain.
Earth's Structure	Earth Sciences		the lithosphere is broke into many large and small slabs of rock. a break in rock that is due to stress. the study of the earth. the center part of the earth below the mantle. the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up and drifted .
Earth's Structures	Geology		an instrument for automatically detecting and recording the intensity, direction and duration of the ground. an igneous rock thst forms when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface. an area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above it. a type of rock that forms from the remains of plants and animals that are pressed and cemented together. the process by which water, ice, wind and gravity moves weathered particles of rock ans soil.
Earthquakes	Earth Sciences		to make ready ahead of time, usually for a particular event. the condition in which a person is vulnerable to harm or risk. the theory that the earth's surface consists of plates whose constant motion explains continental drift. a period of time occupied by a series of events that repeat themselves regularly and in the same order. an event that disrupts a family's or a community's ability to function and for which assistance will be required.
Earthquakes	Earth Sciences	Read the hints and put the best word in the spaces	the point where the crust begins to break resulting in an earthquake. bends in rock that form from compression. compress and expand the ground(seismic waves). instrument that records earthquakes. shearing occurs along this type of fault.
Earthquakes	Geology		rocks brake and move. do not travel as fast as p waves. detacts and measures seismic waves. plates. travel fastest.
Earthquakes & Volcanoes	Earth Sciences		measures the strength of an earthquake. seismic wave that causes the ground to move in a rolling motion and is the slowest. molten rock that erupts onto Earth's surface. energy that travels as vibrations on and in Earth. an instrument used to record seismic waves.
Earthquakes & Volcanos	Earth Sciences	e'myah carter & tyrique dupree	areas of volcanism within the interiors of lithospheric plates . a piece of lithosphere tha has a unique geologic history. describes magma or rock that is rich in light colored silicate materials. when magma erupts into earth's surface. the bending, tilting, & breaking of earths crust.
Earthquakes and Volcanoes	Earth Sciences		In an earthquake, the point underground where the rocks first begin to move.. Molten rock that reaches a planet’s surface through a volcano.. An instrument that constantly records ground movements.. A fracture in Earth’s lithosphere along which blocks of rock move past each other.. A process in which the shaking of ground causes loose, wet soil to act like a liquid..
East Africa	World Geography		What was the NBA athlete's name?. What is 1 of the greetings in South Sudan?. What is 1 of the holidays?. Who's the president of Sudan?. What is 1 of the foods eaten in East Africa?.
East Asia	World Geography	Fill in the blank wit hthe correct vocabulary word from the word bank	a school of Buddhism that developed in northwest India, stressing the view that nirvana can be achieved through devotion to the Buddha. a sect of Buddhism that became popular with Japanese aristocrats and became part of the samurai's code of behavior. the way of seeing or believing. head of noble familes in Japan who controlled vast landed estates and relied on samurai for protection. a ceramic made of fine clay baked at very high temperatures.
Easter Theme	Holidays and Seasons		people marching in the streets. What you put your eggs in. what the Easter Bunny does to the eggs. the hat you wear at Easter. beautiful yellow flowers at Spring.
Eastern Europe	World Geography		Ukrainian borscht is served hot & often includes what?. Czech sweet roll filled with fruit butter, nuts, or poppy seed paste. French haute cuisine was introduced to Russia by the ruler ___ ___ ___. Not a typical food of the central region of Easern Europe. What did closed societies & closed markets under communism allow in many countries in Eastern Europe to stagnate for many years?.
Eastern Europe and the Middle East	World Geography		Capital of Iraq. system using pipes and canals to bring water to dry croplands. without religous influence. an Islamic religious leader. ethnic minority in Turkey.
Ebola Symptoms	Health		Form in the arteries, restricting flow of blood to organs. What a mix of black granules and arterial blood is called. What Ebola destroys more thoroughly than Marburg. How the organs are when the patient dies. Percent of victims that die from Ebola Sudan once infected.
Ecological Interactions	Earth Sciences		an interaction in which one organism hunts and kills another animal for food. a factor in the ecosystem that keeps a population from growing too large. an interaction in which one organism benefits and the other organism is harmed. shows how the energy in food is passed from one organism to another in an ecosystem. all the living and nonliving things that interact in an area.
Ecology	Biology		what is a stable mature community that has reached equillibrium. what is an organism that uses organic waste . what is the factor that tends to limit population size. what is the factor that does not depend on the number of individuals in the population. what is the connection from a producer, to a primary consumer, to a secondary consumer, to a tertiary consumer called.
Ecology	Biology		Living or once living parts of an organisim's habitat. The relation betwen two different organisims where one benifits. All living and non-living organisims in an area and the non-living features in an enviroment.. The relation of two in which one gets food or other benifits from the other.. A place where an organisim lives and has food,shelter,moistere, and temputre needed for survival.
Ecology	Science		interaction with an organism that captures and feeds on other organism . step in a food chain or web . organism that can capture energy from the sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce food from inorganic compounds. series of steps in an ecosystem where organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten . collection of all organisms that live in a particular place.
Ecology	Science		The conversion of nitrate to nitrogen gas. The path of energy through the trophic levels of an ecosystem. Consists of a community and all the physical aspects of its habitat. The process of combining nitrogen with hydrogen to form ammonia. An animal that eats other animals.
Ecology	Science	Match up the Definitions with the meaning	The different types of diversity in an environment. An organism that decomposes the dead material in an ecosystem. The same species in one ecosystem. An organism that produces food for other animals. An organism's purpose in an ecosystem.
Ecology	Science		;An interaction in which one organism kills and eats the other. A relationship between two species in which one species benefits from the other which is harmed. All the living and non-living things that interact in a particular area.. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other one is neither helped nor harmed.. The larger species of the two organisms in a symbiotic relationship. .
Ecology	Science	Think on this one little ones	A symbiosis in which one organism lives off another.. Animals depending on one another.. A community of plants and animals that live in a cretian area.. Not a living organism.. A plant growing on a tree..
Ecology	Science		;An interaction in which one organism kills and eats the other. A relationship between two species in which one species benefits from the other which is harmed. All the living and non-living things that interact in a particular area.. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other one is neither helped nor harmed.. The larger species of the two organisms in a symbiotic relationship. .
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