Homeostasis

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Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 8. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic (13)
  2. 10. One form in which body fuel is stored (8)
  3. 11. Salty fluid secreted by ___ glands (5)
  4. 12. The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (7)
  5. 13. A monosaccharide sugar that has several forms (7)
  6. 15. The metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules (11)

Down

  1. 1. The process of becoming a vapor (11)
  2. 2. How hot or cold something is (11)
  3. 3. Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes from the blood and excrete them (6)
  4. 4. A hormone secreted by the pancreas (8)
  5. 5. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group (6)
  6. 6. Glucose in the ___ (10)
  7. 7. Liquid excretory product (5)
  8. 9. Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (plural) (5)
  9. 14. Large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of (5)
  10. 16. A particle that is electrically charged (plural) (4)