Parts of You

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. The organ of sight (plural) (4)
  2. 4. The longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton (5)
  3. 6. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers (5)
  4. 7. The flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs (7)
  5. 8. Large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of (5)
  6. 10. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint (7)
  7. 12. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis (7)
  8. 14. Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes from the blood and excrete them (6)
  9. 15. A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch (4)

Down

  1. 1. Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (plural) (5)
  2. 2. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)
  3. 4. The outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle (6)
  4. 5. Bone extending from the shoulder to the elbow (7)
  5. 9. Any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum (3)
  6. 11. The length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere (6)
  7. 13. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle (5)