TAKS root words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal (9)
  2. 5. The act of moving something from one location to another (8)
  3. 7. How plants make food from sunlight (14)
  4. 8. A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment (9)
  5. 10. Electronic equipment external to the circuit board that contains the CPU of a computer (10)
  6. 12. The bodily process of discharging waste matter (9)
  7. 13. Of or relating to or having vessels that conduct and circulate fluids (8)
  8. 16. The outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates (9)

Down

  1. 1. A liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances (7)
  2. 2. Metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via (11)
  3. 4. The secretion of an ___ gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (9)
  4. 6. Having or consisting of a single cell (11)
  5. 9. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color (10)
  6. 11. To cause to change into a vapor (9)
  7. 14. Part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function (6)
  8. 15. A cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses (6)