The Human Body

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (5)
  2. 3. Any skeletal muscle having two origins (6)
  3. 4. The protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus (9)
  4. 9. An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences (10)
  5. 11. Tiniest unit of living things (plural) (5)
  6. 12. A thin ___ enclosing the cytoplasm of a ___ (12)
  7. 13. The substance of a living cell (10)
  8. 14. Any substance that promotes ___ (9)

Down

  1. 1. A sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles (plural) (9)
  2. 4. Any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms (11)
  3. 5. Of or relating to the heart (7)
  4. 6. A tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell (7)
  5. 7. A binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law (8)
  6. 8. Tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood (8)
  7. 9. Plastid containing ___ and other pigments (11)
  8. 10. A well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world (6)