Your Body

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion (plural) (4)
  2. 5. The point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (5)
  3. 7. The part of an armchair or sofa that supports the elbow and forearm of a seated person (plural) (4)
  4. 9. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers (5)
  5. 12. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium (3)
  6. 13. Any of the terminal members of the hand (plural) (7)
  7. 14. An area that is approximately central within some larger region (3)

Down

  1. 1. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)
  2. 3. Strands that grow on your head (4)
  3. 4. One of the digits of the foot (plural) (4)
  4. 6. A body part made of tissues working together to perform a function. (5)
  5. 8. One of the contractile organs of the body (6)
  6. 9. Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates (plural) (5)
  7. 10. Young of domestic cattle (4)
  8. 11. Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes from the blood and excrete them (6)