An easy crossword puzzle for elementary students featuring famous landmarks and places measured in unusual units. Great for learning simple facts and measurement fun.
Quirky Measures of Peculiar Scales is a easy crossword puzzle with 16 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
Quirky Measures of Peculiar Scales
Explore a variety of rare and intriguing units used around the world to measure unusual quantities, from everyday oddities to obscure scientific terms.
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- 1. Slang often used for British currency, used informally as value measure
- 2. Scottish unit for the length of a furrow plowed by a horse
- 4. Greek-origin term meaning 10,000 units
- 7. Colloquial measure for small vibrations or movements
- 9. Very small or tiny amount, especially of spices
- 10. Imperial unit used for dry volume, often for produce
- 14. Scottish unit used for measuring salmon catches
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- 3. Quantity of 500 sheets of paper
- 5. Traditional unit to measure horse height
- 6. Informal term used as a fractional measurement of weight
- 8. SI unit of energy, often overlooked in daily use
- 11. Old apothecaries' weight roughly equivalent to a few grams
- 12. Rare informal unit denoting a very small amount
- 13. Unit of luminous intensity from early lighting measurements
- 15. Imperial unit traditionally used to measure race tracks
- 16. Nautical unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour
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