Chapter Six

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task (8)
  2. 5. Nutrient in meat and beans that builds muscle (plural) (8)
  3. 7. Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates (plural) (5)
  4. 10. A state of poor nutrition (12)
  5. 12. The invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead (plural) (10)
  6. 13. Animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells (plural) (7)
  7. 15. Any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific (plural) (7)
  8. 16. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (plural) (8)

Down

  1. 1. Eater of fruits and grains and nuts (10)
  2. 2. Usually large hard-shelled seed (plural) (4)
  3. 4. The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (plural) (8)
  4. 6. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers (3)
  5. 8. Organic compounds containing an ___ group and a carboxylic ___ group (plural) (10)
  6. 9. Not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind (9)
  7. 11. The power to do work or make things move (6)
  8. 14. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)