Lesson 4 - The Stages of the Life Cycle

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Having to do with the body (8)
  2. 3. The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next (8)
  3. 5. A close personal relationship that forms between people (7)
  4. 7. The natural world around us (11)
  5. 9. An established custom (plural) (6)
  6. 12. Substance used in or made by chemistry (8)
  7. 15. Parents, children and relatives who belong together (6)
  8. 16. The process of an individual organism growing organically (6)

Down

  1. 2. The time of person's life when they are a ___ (9)
  2. 4. A series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage (9)
  3. 6. Affected by a disorder of the mind (6)
  4. 8. The early stage of growth or development (7)
  5. 10. A party of people assembled to promote ___ and communal activity (6)
  6. 11. The youngest member of a group (4)
  7. 13. The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (7)
  8. 14. The event of being born (5)