Lesson 4 - The Stages of Life

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The process of using your mind to consider something carefully (8)
  2. 3. A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity (8)
  3. 4. The early stage of growth or development (7)
  4. 8. The time of person's life when they are a ___ (9)
  5. 10. The end of life (5)
  6. 11. How long something has existed (3)
  7. 12. Intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (5)

Down

  1. 1. A series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage (9)
  2. 5. A party of people assembled to promote ___ and communal activity (6)
  3. 6. A fully developed person from maturity onward (5)
  4. 7. The youngest member of a group (4)
  5. 8. An immature ___ person (5)
  6. 9. The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (plural) (8)