Chapter 11 words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water (9)
  2. 3. The state of being joined together (11)
  3. 5. Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria (6)
  4. 6. A lash-like appendage used for locomotion (9)
  5. 7. Any of various antibiotics obtained from ___ molds and used in the treatment of various (10)
  6. 9. How plants make food from sunlight (14)
  7. 13. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots (5)
  8. 15. The aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh (8)
  9. 16. Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium (8)

Down

  1. 1. Separating something into fine particles (13)
  2. 4. Center of an atom or a cell (7)
  3. 8. To separate into constituent elements or parts (9)
  4. 10. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens (6)
  5. 11. The taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools (5)
  6. 12. An infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of (7)
  7. 14. A British imperial capacity unit equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters (plural) (5)