Cardiovascular Fitness

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)
  2. 5. A ___ in which ___ circulates (plural) (12)
  3. 7. A series with a definite pattern of advance (11)
  4. 12. Inhaling and exhaling fumes from burning tobacco or other substances. (7)
  5. 14. The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next (8)
  6. 15. Return to an original state (8)
  7. 16. More than average fatness (7)

Down

  1. 2. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body (plural) (8)
  2. 3. Any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules (plural) (11)
  3. 4. The rate at which the heart beats (5)
  4. 6. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)
  5. 8. The quality of being ___ rather than general (11)
  6. 9. The magnitude of sound (9)
  7. 10. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body (4)
  8. 11. Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (plural) (5)
  9. 13. Depending on free oxygen or air (7)