Mineral Nutrients

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion (6)
  2. 4. A hard brittle multivalent metallic element (8)
  3. 6. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group (6)
  4. 10. Relating or belonging to the class of compounds not having a carbon basis (9)
  5. 11. A light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element (9)
  6. 12. An abstract part of something (plural) (8)
  7. 15. Abnormal loss of bony tissue resulting in fragile porous bones attributable to a lack of calcium (12)
  8. 16. Strong metal used to make tools and nails (4)

Down

  1. 1. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element (4)
  2. 3. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light (7)
  3. 5. The marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals (10)
  4. 7. The process of oxidizing (9)
  5. 8. A nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens (6)
  6. 9. A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element (6)
  7. 13. An abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element (7)
  8. 14. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element (6)