Diet Words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group (6)
  2. 7. An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals (12)
  3. 9. Any of several elongated, threadlike cells (5)
  4. 10. Wishing and expecting that something good will happen (4)
  5. 14. Sweet food that grows on plants (5)
  6. 15. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (plural) (8)
  7. 16. Nutrient in meat and beans that builds muscle (7)

Down

  1. 1. The upper part of anything (plural) (4)
  2. 2. Sweet white crystals added to food (plural) (6)
  3. 4. An animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver (11)
  4. 5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light (7)
  5. 6. The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity (6)
  6. 8. The food and drink a person usually has (4)
  7. 11. Moving on foot (7)
  8. 12. Any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism (7)
  9. 13. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)