Crossword Puzzles about Middle School Chemistry

These crosswords help students to rehearse middle school chemistry concepts. When they fill a printables/crossword-puzzles">crossword, a hidden name of a famous chemist will appear. The accomplishments of the chemists are explained on the last page.

This material can be used for example as a review, exam preparation, time filler, material to a substitute teacher etc. This is ready to use, print-and-go material including all answers. Students may need some study book or other source to get all crosswords completed. However, you can use these without any books first to see how far the students will go! These printables/crossword-puzzles">crossword puzzles are best suitable for work in small groups, but can be also used for individual work. 

The hints are verbal descriptions. Some examples of the hints:

A substance that cannot be separated into simpler substances

A mixture of metals or a metal combined with other elements

Helps to measure small amounts of liquid one drop at a time

Materials that ignite easily are called …

A law that tells that the pressure of an ideal gas at constant temperature varies inversely with the volume

Anode and cathode are both …

A glass container with a at bottom and a small spout for pouring

Organic compounds that contain the functional group OH

One of the states of matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume

Purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors

Examples of words in the crosswords:

Element, inorganic, oxide, nucleus, aromatic, chemical formula, alkyne, acid, double bond, dilution, absorption, allotrope, microscope, neutralization, ion, evaporation, radioactive, ionic bond, mass number

Some words occur in multiple crosswords, but never twice in the same printables/crossword-puzzles">crossword.

The hidden words in the middle rows are the following chemists:

Linus Pauling, Louis Pasteur, Dorothy Hodgkin, Alfred Nobel, Marie Curie, Alice Ball, Amadeo Avogadro, Rosalind Franklin. 

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